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Club3D HD 7850 Royal Queen 1 GB Review
Packaging & Contents »Introduction
Not long ago, AMD released the HD 7800 Series, based on the company's Pitcairn silicon which uses the GCN shader architecture on a 28 nm process. HD 7850 provides great midrange capabilities beating the Radeon HD 6950 and the NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti.
Club3D has chosen a special memory configuration for its HD 7850 Royal Queen. Unlike the 2 GB found on the reference design and on most other HD 7850 cards, the Royal Queen uses just 1 GB of GDDR5 memory. This lets Club3D price its card at only $195, $35 cheaper than the reference design. At this point you are probably exclaiming, "1 GB! That'll never be enough for the latest titles at higher resolutions". Our testing will conclusively show whether this card has any chance of competing with offers in its market segment or whether it's just a big pile of fail.
| Radeon HD 6870 | GeForce GTX 560 | GeForce GTX 560 Ti | Radeon HD 6950 | GeForce GTX 570 | Radeon HD 6970 | Radeon HD 7850 | Club3D HD 7850 RoyalQueen | Radeon HD 7870 | GeForce GTX 580 | Radeon HD 7950 | GeForce GTX 670 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shader Units | 1120 | 336 | 384 | 1408 | 480 | 1536 | 1024 | 1024 | 1280 | 512 | 1792 | 1344 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 40 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 48 | 32 | 32 |
| Graphics Processor | Barts | GF114 | GF114 | Cayman | GF110 | Cayman | Pitcairn | Pitcairn | Pitcairn | GF110 | Tahiti | GK104 |
| Transistors | 1700M | 1950M | 1950M | 2640M | 3000M | 2640M | 2800M | 2800M | 2800M | 3000M | 4310M | 3500M |
| Memory Size | 1024 MB | 1024 MB | 1024 MB | 2048 MB | 1280 MB | 2048 MB | 2048 MB | 1024 MB | 2048 MB | 1536 MB | 3072 MB | 2048 MB |
| Memory Bus Width | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 320 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 384 bit | 384 bit | 256 bit |
| Core Clock | 900 MHz | 810 MHz | 823 MHz | 800 MHz | 732 MHz | 880 MHz | 860 MHz | 860 MHz | 1000 MHz | 772 MHz | 800 MHz | 915 MHz+ |
| Memory Clock | 1050 MHz | 1002 MHz | 1002 MHz | 1250 MHz | 950 MHz | 1375 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1002 MHz | 1250 MHz | 1502 MHz |
| Price | $160 | $170 | $210 | $240 | $250 | $340 | $230 | $195 | $290 | $430 | $340 | $400 |
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