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Overclocking performance was good – we managed to reach final stable frequencies of 1657/1771 MHz on the core and 1476 MHz (11808MHz effective) on the memory. By way of comparison we managed 1637/1751 MHz core and 1500MHz (12000MHz effective) memory with Gigabyte's Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition.
The end result of that overclocking is a 3DMark Ultra graphics score of 7426, a 7.5 per cent boost over out of the box performance. Gigabyte's GTX 1080 Ti Aorus achieved 7445 when overclocked, which is an almost identical result.
People around me get 1070/80 and 580/70 and I’m like “My radeon 7850 is just fine” 🙁
I need an upgrade.
This card uses a very good quality 12+2 power phase VRM. It has 6 doubled phases + 2 real memory phases which makes the VRM run cool.
For example the MSI Gaming X 1080ti uses 8 real phases and this spreads the heat on fewer components which generates more hotspots.
Please correct the article, thank you!
7850 isn’t far off a R9 270/X or 370, and slightly faster than an RX 460, and even the 560 for that matter. You’re not really missing out on much except efficiency.
While yes in older titles they are not very different, in newer titles 560 will just fly away because of better and more efficient cgn cores. Also the 4GB of VRAM will make a big deal because I have the 1GB version (stupid decision, to save 30 euros back then) and it shows.
True, i’ve a 2GB R9 270X in the pc which is hooked up to the tv, its only a 720p tv which is shite but its good as nothing needs more than the 2GB lol, but in terms of raw power theyre roughly the same, got it overclocked to 1100mhz core and 1500mhz memory while undervolted, runs really cool, friend has an RX 460 for 1080p gaming and cant really say much more except than its got 4GB of vram, though even at stock it runs hotter (suprisingly) and pulls more power?!
AMD needs to make a big step forward, i held out on upgrading in the hopes of vega beating the 1080ti but as soon as the frontier edition dropped i jumped right onto that 1080ti, modded it to remove power target and it sits at 2025mhz 24/7 along with 12ghz on the vram up from 11ghz.
You got this particular card reviewed overclocked to 2025mhz? There is an older version of it, the plain Jetstream one, any ideas how much that one can be overclocked by? I can’t find a proper review for that other card.
I believe you are right. I stand corrected.