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Radeon HD 4850 1GB vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

The Radeon HD 4850 1GB features a core clock frequency of 625 MHz and a GDDR4 memory frequency of 993 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is comprised of 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1500 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4850 1GB 110 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT 160 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (45%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be much faster than the Radeon HD 4850 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 344064 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 1GB 63552 MB/sec
Difference: 280512 (441%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is quite a bit (about 692%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 4850 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 198000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 1GB 25000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 173000 (692%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 88000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 1GB 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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4850 1GB Radeon RX 5600 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 January 2020
Code Name RV770 PRO Navi 10 XLE
Memory 1024 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 625 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 1986 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 110 watts 160 watts
Bandwidth 63552 MB/sec 344064 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25000 Mtexels/sec 198000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10000 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 2304
Texture Mapping Units 40 144
Render Output Units 16 64
Bus Type GDDR4 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 7 nm
Transistors 956 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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.

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