Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 A360

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon R7 A360, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon HD 7850 stacks up against Radeon R7 A360, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 7850 Radeon R7 A360
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 7850 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon R7 A360 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
  • Radeon HD 7850 has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon R7 A360.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 7850 is build with GCN 1.0 architecture, and Radeon R7 A360 - with GCN 3.0.
  • Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon R7 A360 are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7850 is 1197 MHz higher, than Radeon R7 A360.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 18−20 0−1
ultra / 1080p 10−12
QHD / 1440p 5−6 0−1
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 35−40 1−2
medium / 1080p 24−27 0−1
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 3600% more, than Radeon R7 A360.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 7850 Radeon R7 A360
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Pitcairn Meso
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 5 March 2012 5 May 2015
Pipelines 1024 384
Core clock speed 725 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 980 MHz
Transistor count 2,800 million 1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 55.04 23.52
Floating-point performance 1,761 gflops 864.0 gflops
Length 210 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 3.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 57.6 GB/s
DirectX 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 5.1 6.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.2
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
HDMI +
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