Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon RX Vega 5 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7850
Radeon RX Vega 5
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
Vega
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
January 2020
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
1400 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
320
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
15 Watt
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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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12
12_1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.6
-
Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
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