GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

CORE STATE Barts

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 254 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE TeraScale 2

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

VS

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 5500 XT

CORE STATE Navi 14

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1845 MHz

TDP 130 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 1.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

3,977

44,625

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,032

geekbench_metal

N/A

55,926

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

42,120

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

56

passmark_directx_12

N/A

40

passmark_directx_9

N/A

133

passmark_g2d

N/A

774

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,083

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,446

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 6850 X2

RX 5500 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

960

1,408 +46.7%

Shaders

960

1,408 +46.7%

TMUs

48

88 +83.3%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

12

22 +83.3%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1607 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1845 MHz

GPU Clock

800 MHz

—

Game Clock

—

1717 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz 4.2 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

—

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

59.04 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1.536 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

—

324.7 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.39 TFLOPS (2:1)

Power

TDP

254 W

130 W

TDP (W)

254

130 -48.8%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

TeraScale 2

RDNA 1.0

GPU Name

Barts

Navi 14

Generation

Northern Islands (HD 6800)

Navi (RX 5000)

Process Size

40 nm

7 nm

Transistors

1,700 million

6,400 million

Die Size

255 mm²

158 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

6.7M / mm²

40.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

Shader Model

5.0

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

—

180 mm 7.1 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Other

Launch Price

—

169 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Evergreen

Vega

Successor

Southern Islands

Navi II

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