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Finally upgrading the ageing but venerable HD 7850...

SgtKenzo
By SgtKenzo
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Hey guys! SgtKenzo here and finally, after so long, I am upgrading my HIS HD 7850 2GB.

 

So originally how i ended up with is because I had a PC back in 2010 with -

AMD Phenom II X4 965 (3.4 GHz, 4c/4t)

8GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333MHz

ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB.

 

Where in 2012 i upgraded the 5770 to the 7850 2GB which was basically a slightly trimmed down 7870. And then last year I got this new pc which is now rocking -

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

16GB DDR4 @ 3200MHz

AMD HD 7850 2GB

 

Going to be picking up my new graphics card tomorrow which will be the brand new Sapphire Pulse AMD RX 5600 XT 6GB!

In terms of performance, is this a bigger upgrade than going from the 5770 to the 7850? And will this be better at GPU-accelerated rendering than the 7850?

| CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | RAM - Patriot Viper 32GB DDR4 CL 16 3200MHz RGB RAM | GPU - AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB | Motherboard - MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk |

| PSU - Gigabyte Aorus AP850GM | Case - NZXT H510 Flow | YouTube - SgtKenzo |

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The HD 7850 is ever so slightly more powerful than a GTX 750 Ti

I assume you will get a Massive jump in performance, around 70 percent 

 

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23 minutes ago, SgtKenzo said:

is this a bigger upgrade

It will feel like going from a Geo Metro to a Dodge Viper.

Gaming With a 4:3 CRT

System specs below

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X with a Noctua NH-U9S cooler 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M (Because it was cheap)
RAM: 32GB (4 x 8GB) Corsair Vengance LPX 3200Mhz CL16
GPU: EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC Blower Card
HDD: 7200RPM TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB, External HDD: 5400RPM 2TB WD My Passport
SSD: 1tb Samsung 970 evo m.2 nvme
PSU: Corsair CX650M
Displays: ViewSonic VA2012WB LCD 1680x1050p @ 75Hz
Gateway VX920 CRT: 1920x1440@65Hz, 1600x1200@75Hz, 1200x900@100Hz, 960x720@125Hz
Gateway VX900 CRT: 1920x1440@64Hz, 1600x1200@75Hz, 1200x900@100Hz, 960x720@120Hz (Can be pushed to 175Hz)
 
Keyboard: Thermaltake eSPORTS MEKA PRO with Cherry MX Red switches
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5 hours ago, SgtKenzo said:

Going to be picking up my new graphics card tomorrow which will be the brand new Sapphire Pulse AMD RX 5600 XT 6GB!

In terms of performance, is this a bigger upgrade than going from the 5770 to the 7850? And will this be better at GPU-accelerated rendering than the 7850?

If you go by techpowerup's gpu reviews, the RX 5600 XT (with the updated BIOS) is legitimately about 4.5x more powerful in 1080p performance than the HD 7850. Which makes sense since it has 4.1x the FP32 performance (eg how many TFLOPS). It is a monster jump, complete night and day.

 

7850 is only about 1.9x more powerful that 5770 in gaming performance at 1900x1200 in techpowerup's benchmark of the 7850. This jump from 7850 to 5600 XT should absolutely dwarf that jump. And especially since you have a really high quality CPU to drive that gpu too.

 

I think you're going to be blown away by it if you play graphically intense games. 5600 XT will play anything on the market really well at 1080p.

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