AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 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 9 years late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (110W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +249%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Oct 2010

Navi

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

12

-

1408

Shading Units

960

88

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

110W

TDP

127W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Barts

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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