AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +238%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Oct 2019

Northern Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

22

-

960

Shading Units

1408

48

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

110W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Navi 14

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon 550X

2

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD FirePro W8000

3

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

4

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM

5

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3450 PCI

6

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 360E

7

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6770 Green Edition

8

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6570 OEM

9

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs ATI FireMV 2250 PCIe x1

10

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!