Radeon HD 7850 and RV280 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7850

RV280

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

RV280

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2012

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Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

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Floating-point performance

1,761 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

36 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

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Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

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Texture fill rate

55.04

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

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Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

12

8.1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.4

Shader Model

5.1

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Vulkan

+

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

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FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

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ZeroCore

-

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