Radeon HD 8850M and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8850M

Radeon RX Vega 7

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Vega (2017−2021)

GPU code name

Venus

Vega Raven Ridge

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

December 2012

January 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Boost clock speed

725 MHz

1800 MHz

Core clock speed

575 MHz

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Floating-point performance

800.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

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Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

448

Power consumption (TDP)

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15 Watt

Texture fill rate

25.00

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Memory type

GDDR5, DDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

12_1

OpenCL

1.2

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OpenGL

4.6

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Shader Model

5.1

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Vulkan

1.2.131

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