AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and ATI Radeon HD 5850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

ATI Radeon HD 5850

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.2x more boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 725 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 30 September 2009
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5850

3.2x more pipelines: 1440 vs 448
3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33977 vs 11203

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1440 vs 448
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	33977 vs 11203

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5850

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

33977

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	ATI Radeon HD 5850
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	0
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	33977
PassMark - G3D Mark		1966
PassMark - G2D Mark		411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		16.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1109.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		42.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	ATI Radeon HD 5850
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	TeraScale 2
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Cypress
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	30 September 2009
Place in performance rating	1317	751
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	448	1440
Core clock speed		725 MHz
Floating-point performance		2,088.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		52.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		151 Watt
Transistor count		2,154 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	11
OpenGL		4.4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		4000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity