AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1406 MHz vs 625 MHz
1908x more texture fill rate: 429.30 GTexel/s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
2.6x more pipelines: 4096 vs 2x 800
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 55 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Launch date	7 August 2017 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	1406 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	429.30 GTexel/s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	4096 vs 2x 800
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

146x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,000.0 gflops vs 13.7 TFLOPs
Around 38% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 345 Watt
Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Floating-point performance	2x 1,000.0 gflops vs 13.7 TFLOPs
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 345 Watt
Memory clock speed	1990 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3362
PassMark - G3D Mark		1132
PassMark - G2D Mark		542

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	TeraScale
Code name	Vega 10	R700
Design	Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date	7 August 2017	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	$420
Place in performance rating	208	245
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1677 MHz
Compute units	64
Core clock speed	1406 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	13.7 TFLOPs	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	55 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines	4096	2x 800
Pixel fill rate	107.30 GP/s
Render output units	64
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	429.30 GTexel/s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Texture Units	256
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	345 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	12,500 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	282 mm	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	1000 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.1
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	2048 bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR3
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore