PowerColor Radeon HD 7850 PCS+ 2GB GDDR5 PCIe AX7850-2GBD5-2DHPP

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Pros:

Overclocked out of the box, Reasonable price increase, Quiet, Good overclocking potential, Low temperatures, Native fullsize HDMI & DisplayPort output, Support for PCIExpress 3.0 and DirectX 11.1, AMD's ZeroCore power helps reduce power consumption
Faster than reference, Very quiet in use, Excellent cooler, Lots of overclocking potential, Runs off a single power connector.

Cons:

CCC Overdrive limits too low, No support for CUDA and PhysX
Not a big step up from lastgen cards

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Last revision on March 11, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Overclocked out of the box, Reasonable price increase, Quiet, Good overclocking potential, Low temperatures, Native fullsize HDMI & DisplayPort output, Support for PCIExpress 3.0 and DirectX 11.1, AMD's ZeroCore power helps reduce power consumption
Faster than reference, Very quiet in use, Excellent cooler, Lots of overclocking potential, Runs off a single power connector

Reviewers Didn't Like

CCC Overdrive limits too low, No support for CUDA and PhysX
Not a big step up from lastgen cards

Expert reviews and ratings

PowerColor's HD 7850 PCS+ is the highest clocked HD 7850 you can find on the market. Being backed by gigahertz GPU clocks the card delivers an excellent performance improvement over the AMD HD 7850 reference design - 8% averaged over our testing. This...

By techPowerUp! on May 29, 2012

Review: PowerColor PCS+ HD7850by Parm Mann on 4 May 2012, 12:26 4.0 Tags: PowerColor (6150.TWO), AMD (NYSE:AMD) Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qabf4z Add to My Vault: AMD has launched so many Radeon HD 7000 series cards in such a short period of time, that...

By HEXUS.net on May 04, 2012

NVIDIA's just released GTX 650Ti Boost had the HD 7850 square in its sights as the performance target to meet and exceed. That target happens to be the stock 860MHz clocked variety and not the impressively overclocked HD 7850 PCS+ version from PowerColor...

By Overclockers Club on April 14, 2013

The graphics market has slowed down over the last few months and even while there have been some major releases for the most part we are just seeing product refreshes. This is not a bad thing though because when looking at a graphics card such as...

By Real World Labs on March 20, 2013

For a lower mid-range Radeon HD model, I was surprised to see how well the PowerColor 7850 PCS did. The closest GPU we have had to this card is the Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 which the PowerColor offering clearly outshined. Well, we figured that much as the...

By Pro-Clockers on March 15, 2013

Today’s game of tag turned out to be a 66.6% success, because two overclocked graphics cards of the three managed to catch up with the higher-end models and even outperform them. For example, MSI R7870 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC at its nominal frequencies is...

By X-bit Labs on July 23, 2012

By design the PowerColor HD 7850 PCS+ is built to deliver better thermal performance, stability and lower acoustic levels. All of these make it superior to the reference models, but with a default clock speed of 1000MHz it is also much faster than the...

By Neoseeker on May 23, 2012

At the time of this review, the PCS+ HD7850 has not hit online vendors, but we can assume the MSRP will be slightly higher than the AX7850 version's $249.99 price tag. I'd venture to say a price of around $280.00 is where the PCS+ HD7850 will fall in...

By overclockers.com on May 08, 2012

Mögliche Bewertungskriterien: -- / – / o / + / ++Unsere Bewertungstabelle zeigt bereits relativ deutlich die Stärken und Schwächen der PowerColor Radeon HD 7850 PCS+* auf. Durch den hohen GPU-Takt von 1000 MHz zeigt man sich selbstverständlich...

By HardTecs4U on May 30, 2012