Radeon HD 4850 512MB vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with core clock speeds of 1375 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4850 512MB		110 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4850 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		63552 MB/sec
	Difference: 231360 (364%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is much (about 604%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4850 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		25000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 151000 (604%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is superior to the Radeon HD 4850 512MB, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		10000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78000 (780%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 one second.

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