AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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.

AMD Radeon RX 5500

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 512 MB
7.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8801 vs 1132
Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 542

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Oct 2019 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	1670 MHz vs 625 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8801 vs 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	766 vs 542

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 162.36 GT/s

Texture fill rate	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 162.36 GT/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8801

1132

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

766

542

Name	AMD Radeon RX 5500	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	8801	1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	766	542
Geekbench - OpenCL	42284
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	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA	TeraScale
Launch date	7 Oct 2019	7 November 2008
Place in performance rating	257	245
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Code name		R700
Launch price (MSRP)		$420
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1670 MHz	625 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	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	956 million
Floating-point performance		2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		55 nm
Pipelines		2x 800
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR3
Memory clock speed		1990 MHz
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		4x DVI, 1x S-Video
API support
DirectX		10.1
OpenGL		3.3