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PowerColor HD 7850 SCS3 passive 1 GB Review
Packaging & Contents »Introduction
Over one year ago, AMD released the HD 7800 Series based on the company's Pitcairn silicon that uses the GCN shader architecture on a 28 nm process. The HD 7850 provides great midrange capabilities at affordable pricing.
PowerColor has a long history of engineering passively custom-cooled cards with their SCS series. The PowerColor HD 7850 SCS3 continues that saga and introduces a new option for gamers who want absolutely no noise coming from the graphics card while gaming at full HD.
Unlike many HD 7850 cards, the PowerColor HD 7850 SCS3 comes with just 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, which will reduce performance at resolutions beyond full HD; that said, 1080p full HD should be fine.
In terms of pricing, PowerColor expects a $25 premium over the 1 GB reference design.
| GeForce GTX 650 Ti | Radeon HD 6870 | GeForce GTX 560 Ti | Radeon HD 7790 | Radeon HD 6950 | GeForce GTX 570 | Radeon HD 6970 | Radeon HD 7850 | PowerColor HD 7850 SCS3 | GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost | GeForce GTX 660 | Radeon HD 7870 | GeForce GTX 580 | GeForce GTX 660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shader Units | 768 | 1120 | 384 | 896 | 1408 | 480 | 1536 | 1024 | 1024 | 768 | 960 | 1280 | 512 | 1344 |
| ROPs | 16 | 32 | 32 | 16 | 32 | 40 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 24 | 24 | 32 | 48 | 24 |
| Graphics Processor | GK106 | Barts | GF114 | Bonaire | Cayman | GF110 | Cayman | Pitcairn | Pitcairn | GK106 | GK106 | Pitcairn | GF110 | GK104 |
| Transistors | 2540M | 1700M | 1950M | 2080M | 2640M | 3000M | 2640M | 2800M | 2800M | 2540M | 2540M | 2800M | 3000M | 3500M |
| Memory Size | 1024 MB | 1024 MB | 1024 MB | 1024 MB | 2048 MB | 1280 MB | 2048 MB | 2048 MB | 1024 MB | 2048 MB | 2048 MB | 2048 MB | 1536 MB | 2048 MB |
| Memory Bus Width | 128 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 128 bit | 256 bit | 320 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 192 bit | 192 bit | 256 bit | 384 bit | 192 bit |
| Core Clock | 925 MHz | 900 MHz | 823 MHz | 1000 MHz | 800 MHz | 732 MHz | 880 MHz | 860 MHz | 860 MHz | 980 MHz+ | 980 MHz+ | 1000 MHz | 772 MHz | 915 MHz+ |
| Memory Clock | 1350 MHz | 1050 MHz | 1002 MHz | 1500 MHz | 1250 MHz | 950 MHz | 1375 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1002 MHz | 1502 MHz |
| Price | $130 | $170 | $170 | $140 | $170 | $250 | $380 | $180 | $195 | $170 | $200 | $210 | $310 | $280 |
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