Legit Reviews posted a review on the XFX Radeon HD 7850 1GB Core Edition Video Card
If you want to spend under $200 on a discrete graphics card you have a large number of choices, but one card that recently managed to catch our attention is the AMD Radeon HD 7850. The AMD Radeon HD 7850 came out on March 4, 2012 and cost $249.99 when we originally reviewed the reference card. This video card is now seven months old and the price for an entry level AMD Radeon HD 7850 card has fallen below the $180 price point, which is impressive. One video card that stands out in particular is the XFX Radeon HD 7850 1GB Core Edition (FX785AZNFC) as it appears to be one of the lowest priced AMD Radeon HD 7800 series cards on the market today at $179.99. One of the reasons that this card is priced so low is that XFX is using just 1GB of GDDR5 memory instead of 2GB. By slicing the amount of memory in half, XFX was able to obviously reduce costs, but what about overall gaming performance? The point of this review is to see if 1GB of 'VRAM' on a Radeon HD 7850 is adequate for 1920x1080 gaming with the settings cranked up!XFX Radeon HD 7850 1GB Core Edition Video Card Review
The XFX Radeon HD 7850 Core Edition 1GB is one of nine AMD Radeon HD 7850 based cards offered by XFX. The part number on the card that we are looking at today is FX-785A-ZNFC and this particular model features a core clock of 860MHz and a memory clock of 1200MHz (4800MHz effective). As you can see from the image above the card uses the a single cooling fan to keep the 1,024 stream processors and 2.8 billion transistors in this 28nm GPU nice and cool!
