AMD 7000 Graphics cards are really good for gaming and from mide to high level. Today we take a look at AMD HD 7850.The HD 7850 pretty much finalises AMD's current plans for the Southern Islands line up, bar the crazy-expensive dual-GPU New Zealand card which is likely waiting on Nvidia's new cards.We may see some other odd little revisions once Nvidia's Kepler cards start trickling out, just to fill some gaps, but this is going to be the last standard card for a while.The AMD Radeon HD 7850 is also the card that's arguably got the most chance of being successful out of this family. At the price it looks likely to retail at, the sub-£200 mark, it could well be the highest-selling of AMD's enthusiast-class cards.
Specifications:
860MHz Engine Clock
2GB GDDR5 Memory
1200MHz Memory Clock (4.8 Gbps GDDR5)
153.6GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
1.76 TFLOPS Single Precision compute power
GCN Architecture
16 Compute Units (1024 Stream Processors)
64 Texture Units
128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
32 Color ROP Units
Dual Geometry Engines
Dual Asynchronous Compute Engines (ACE)
256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11.1-capable graphics
OpenGL 4.2 support
Partially Resident Textures (PRT)
Ultra-high resolution texture streaming technology
Image quality enhancement technology
Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing
Adaptive anti-aliasing
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA)
Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (EQAA)
DirectX® 9/10/11 Supersample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA)
Requires AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 or later
16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology2
Up to 6 displays supported
Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
Display grouping
Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
Discrete Digital Multi-Point Audio (DDMA)
AMD App Acceleration3
Supports OpenCL™ 1.2, DirectCompute 11 & Microsoft C++ AMP
Double Precision Floating Point
AMD HD Media Accelerator
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
H.264
VC-1
MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
MVC (Blu-ray 3D)
MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
Adobe Flash
DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
WMV HD
Video Codec Engine (VCE)
Multi-stream hardware H.264 encoder
Full-fixed mode: 1080p @ 60 FPS encoding
Hybrid mode: Stream Processor-assisted encoding
Enhanced Video Quality features
Advanced post-processing and scaling
Deblocking
Denoising
Automatic deinterlacing
Mosquito noise reduction
Edge enhancement
3:2 pulldown detection
Advanced video color correction
Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
Independent video gamma control
Flesh tone correction
Color vibrance control
Dynamic contrast
Dynamic video range control
AMD HD3D technology5
Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
Blu-ray 3D support
Stereoscopic 3D gaming
3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU technology6
Supports dual-GPU performance scaling
Cutting-edge integrated display support
DisplayPort 1.2
Max resolution: 4096x2160 per display
Multi-Stream Transport
21.6 Gbps bandwidth
High bit-rate audio
Quad HD/4k video support
1080p60 Stereoscopic 3D
HDMI® (With 4k, 3D, 3GHz, Deep Color and x.v.Color™)
Max resolution: 4096x2160
1600p60 Stereoscopic 3D
Quad HD/4k video support
Dual-link DVI with HDCP
Max resolution: 2560x1600
VGA
Max resolution: 2048x1536
Integrated HD audio controller
Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology4
Automatic power management with low power idle states
AMD PowerTune technology4
Intelligent TDP management technology
Dynamic clockspeed/performance enhancement for games
AMD ZeroCore Power technology4
Ultra-low idle power when the connected display is in power saving mode
Efficient low power mode for desktop work
Secondary GPUs in an AMD CrossFire™ technology configuration power down when unneeded
AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software
Software support for Windows 7 and Windows Vista
AMD Catalyst™ Control Center - AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of AMD Radeon products.
Unified Graphics display driver - AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.
now lets take a look at BenchMarks results....
- Attractive Design.
- Nice features.
- Good performance.
- Reasonable Price.
- Good option for Overclockers.
- Overclocking Limitations.
- A bit low FPS @ stock speed in some games.
