Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon R7 260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 260
Radeon HD 7850
3976
Radeon R7 260
2978
Radeon HD 7850
Radeon R7 260
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
December 2013
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
1100 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
1,536 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
768
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
55.04
48.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1625 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
104 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
1
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
12
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
1
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-