AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 Graphics 

Overview 

System Requirements 

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 500W (or greater) power supply with one 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connector recommended⁷
• 600W power supply (or greater) with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connectors recommended for AMD CrossFire™ technology.
• Certified power supplies are recommended.  Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products
• Minimum 4GB of system memory
• 8GB (or more) of system memory recommended for AMD CrossFire™ technology
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse, and a display
• DVD playback requires DVD drive and a DVD
• Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive and a Blu-ray disc
• For an AMD CrossFire™ system, a second AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 GPU, an AMD CrossFire™ Ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect cable is required
• Use of 3 or more displays with AMD Eyefinity technology requires a DisplayPort-capable panel or an AMD Eyefinity validated dongle. See http://www.amd.com/EyefinityDongles for a list of validated DisplayPort dongles.
• 64-bit operating system highly recommended
• Not for industrial or commercial use. See AMD FirePro™ Graphics solutions for these applications.

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, Windows Vista and Windows XP
  • 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.

Footnotes 

Additional hardware (e.g. Blu-ray drive, HD or 10-bit monitor, TV tuner) and/or software (e.g. multimedia applications) are required for the full enablement of some features. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.

1. AMD Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or DisplayPort™ compliant active adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required.  Support for six simultaneous displays may require complementary products compatible with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport. Maximum number of configured displays may vary - check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies.  SLS (“Single Large Surface”) functionality requires an identical display resolution on all configured displays.
2. AMD HD3D is a technology designed to enable stereoscopic 3D support in games, movies and/or photos. Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display. Not all features may be supported on all components or systems – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities and supported technologies. A list of supported stereoscopic 3D hardware is available at http://www.amd.com/HD3D.
3. AMD CrossFire™ technology requires an AMD CrossFire Ready motherboard, an AMD CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.
4. Utilization of PCI Express 3.0 bandwidth requires a mainboard equipped with a PCI Express 3.0 PHY. Not all mainboards feature this technology – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.
5. AMD PowerPlay™ and AMD PowerTune are technologies offered by certain AMD Radeon™ products, which are designed to intelligently manage GPU power consumption in response to certain GPU load conditions. Not all products feature all technologies – check with your component or system manufacturer for specific model capabilities.
6. AMD App Acceleration is a set of technologies designed to improve video quality and enhance application performance. Full enablement of some features requires support for OpenCL™, DirectCompute or DirectX® Video Acceleration (DXVA). Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
7. Minimum recommended system power supply wattage is based on the specific graphics card and the typical power requirements of other system components. Your system may require more or less power. OEM and other pre-assembled PCs may have different power requirements.

Reviews 

HardwareCanucks.com “One of the main advantages of the HD 7850 is AMD’s move to a 2GB, 256-bit memory interface.” – M. Hoenig, Hardwarecanucks “As with the HD 7870, we couldn’t have asked for more in terms of efficiency and overclocking capabilities. The sought after 1GHz mark was attainable even without voltage tuning and while your experience may differ, this resulted in unheard of performance levels for a $250 card. Meanwhile, power consumption was by far the best we’ve seen from a GPU that can play games at high settings.” – M. Hoenig, Hardwarecanucks

HotHardware.com “If you’re in the market for a graphics card in their price range, the Radeon HD 7800 series deserves to be on your short list.” -M. Chiappetta, HotHardware

PCPerspective.com

Rage3d.com “The AMD Radeon HD 7800 series are a real pair of jewels, great cards with the right balance of performance, features and power consumption.” –J. Prior, Rage 3D “If you've been holding out for an upgrade for the last 2-3 years for your performance gaming needs, the wait is over - get one, or two, AMD Radeon HD 7800s and don't look back.” –J. Prior, Rage 3D

The Tech Report “I'd say the two new Radeons [HD 7870 & HD 7850] are also better options than the comparable GeForces” –Scott Wasson, The Tech Report “The Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 are the most power-efficient of the bunch, but why wouldn't they be? They both have small and nimble 28-nm GPUs, while our other cards must make do with larger, more power-hungry 40-nm chips.” – Scott Wasson, The Tech Report “Thanks to AMD's ZeroCore Power scheme, 7000-series Radeon GPUs switch to an ultra-low-power state when the display is off. The company says power draw for the whole card drops under 3W when that happens.” – Scott Wasson, The Tech Report