AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

ATI Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +179%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 2009

Arctic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

18

-

2304

Shading Units

1440

144

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

151W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Cypress

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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