AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon VII and AMD Radeon HD 7850M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon VII

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 675 MHz
16x more texture fill rate: 432.24 GT/s vs 27 GTexel / s
6x more pipelines: 3840 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2 GB
12x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16450 vs 1373
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 788 vs 566

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 February 2019 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	432.24 GT/s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	16450 vs 1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	788 vs 566

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

7.5x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 300 Watt
2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon VII
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

16450

1373

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

788

566

Name	AMD Radeon VII	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G3D Mark	16450	1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	788	566
Geekbench - OpenCL	92182
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2307

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon VII	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 1.0
Code name	Vega 20	Heathrow
Design	AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation	5th Gen
Launch date	7 February 2019	24 April 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Place in performance rating	238	235
Price now	$699.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	32.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines	3840	640
Pixel fill rate	115.26 GP/s
Stream Processors	3840
Texture fill rate	432.24 GT/s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	13,230 million	1,500 million
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	305 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 W
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore