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Radeon HD 6850 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

The Radeon HD 6850 comes with core speeds of 775 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 960 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 550, which features a core clock frequency of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 512 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 550 3507 points
Radeon HD 6850 2395 points
Difference: 1112 (46%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550 50 Watts
Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
Difference: 77 Watts (154%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6850, in theory, should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 550 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550 114688 MB/sec
Difference: 13312 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6850 is a bit (about 6%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550 35200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2000 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6850 is much (approximately 41%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550 17600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7200 (41%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 6850 Radeon RX 550
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year October 2010 April 2017
Code Name Barts Pro Polaris 12
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 775 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 127 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37200 Mtexels/sec 35200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24800 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 960 512
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 14 nm
Transistors 1700 million 2200 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 6850

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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