AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Radeon HD 7850M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 5500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 675 MHz
  • 6x more texture fill rate: 162.36 GT/s vs 27 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 6.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8785 vs 1373
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 747 vs 566
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed 1670 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate 162.36 GT/s vs 27 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8785 vs 1373
PassMark - G2D Mark 747 vs 566

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8785
1373
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
747
566
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G3D Mark 8785 1373
PassMark - G2D Mark 747 566
Geekbench - OpenCL 44380
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4813

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Essentials

Architecture RDNA GCN 1.0
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 24 April 2012
Place in performance rating 259 257
Type Desktop Laptop
Code name Heathrow

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1670 MHz 675 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.4 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 59 GP/s
Stream Processors 1408
Texture fill rate 162.36 GT/s 27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 1,500 million
Floating-point performance 864.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm
Pipelines 640

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.5