AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 902 MHz
Around 88% higher boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 936 MHz
4505.9x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 17 March 2014
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 902 MHz
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz vs 936 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

2.8x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 125 Watt
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 125 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
Geekbench - OpenCL	42879
PassMark - G3D Mark		1050
PassMark - G2D Mark		551
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2957
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Maxwell
Code name	Navi 14	GM107
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	17 March 2014
Place in performance rating	511	513
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz	936 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	902 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	640
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	37.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	1,870 million
Floating-point performance		1,198 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width	IGP
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3