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MSI R7850 Power Edition 2 GB Review
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AMD's recently released HD 7800 Series is based on the company's new 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.
MSI's Radeon HD 7870 Power Edition introduces the Twin Frozr IV cooler concept to a midrange card. It was introduced with the MSI HD 7970 Lightning, so expectations are high. In terms of clocks we see a slight 90 MHz overclock on GPU, memory has remained the same. Pricing is up by 20 bucks, so $270 will get you the MSI HD 7870 Power Edition.
| Radeon HD 6870 | GeForce GTX 560 | GeForce GTX 560 Ti | Radeon HD 6950 | GeForce GTX 570 | Radeon HD 6970 | Radeon HD 7850 | MSI HD 7850 Power Edition | 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 | 2048 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 | 950 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 | $155 | $170 | $210 | $250 | $290 | $340 | $250 | $270 | $330 | $380 | $380 | $400 |
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