AMD Radeon RX 550 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 550 and AMD Radeon HD 6850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 550

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel / s vs 37.2 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 127 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2690 vs 1953
• Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 476 vs 434
• 2.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 33.507 vs 13.033
• Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1037.305 vs 946.933
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.064 vs 1.333
• Around 61% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 52.533 vs 32.609
• Around 1% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 140.911 vs 139.45
• Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4485 vs 3489
• Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4485 vs 3489

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850

• Around 88% higher pipelines: 960 vs 512
• 1240x better floating-point performance: 1,488.0 gflops vs 1.2 TFLOPs
• 3.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3708 vs 940
• Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3348 vs 2158
• 3.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3708 vs 940
• Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3348 vs 2158

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 550
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2690 1953
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	476 434
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	33.507 13.033
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1037.305 946.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.064 1.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	52.533 32.609
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	140.911 139.45
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4485 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	940 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2158 3348

Compare specifications (specs)