AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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.

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 675 MHz
6014.8x more texture fill rate: 162.4 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
2.2x more pipelines: 1408 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
3.5x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 4000 MHz
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9164 vs 1373
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 785 vs 566

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 Dec 2019 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	1607 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	162.4 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1408 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	9164 vs 1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	785 vs 566

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

3.3x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 130 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 130 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9164

1373

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

785

566

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G3D Mark	9164	1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	785	566
Geekbench - OpenCL	44846
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	128.135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2024.814
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.328
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	125.474
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	742.778
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11075
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3367
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11075
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3367
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4889

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Navi 14	Heathrow
Launch date	12 Dec 2019	24 April 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$169
Place in performance rating	288	224
Type	Desktop, Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1607 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	324.7 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.39 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.196 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408	640
Pixel fill rate	59.04 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	162.4 GTexel/s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	1,500 million
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	7.09 inches (180 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support