GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

Place in the ranking	813	89
Place by popularity	not in top-100	15
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.26	45.92
Power efficiency	1.67	16.89
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	RV770	TU106
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	25 June 2008 (16 years ago)	9 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RTX 2060 Super has 17562% better value for money than ATI HD 4850.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	800	2176
Core clock speed	625 MHz	1470 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1650 MHz
Number of transistors	956 million	10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	175 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.00	224.4
Floating-point processing power	1 TFLOPS	7.181 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	64
TMUs	40	136
Tensor Cores	no data	272
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	34

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	246 mm	229 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	993 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	63.55 GB/s	448.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	-	+
G-SYNC support	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	4.1	6.5
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	-	7.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI HD 4850 2.67

RTX 2060 Super 42.95
+1509%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ATI HD 4850 1026

RTX 2060 Super 16511
+1509%

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

ATI HD 4850 8972

RTX 2060 Super 83631
+832%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

ATI HD 4850 11272

RTX 2060 Super 121804
+981%

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

ATI HD 4850 72891

RTX 2060 Super 495174
+579%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	29 −1452%	450−500 +1452%
Full HD	39 −203%	118 +203%
1200p	19 −1479%	300−350 +1479%
1440p	4−5 −1575%	67 +1575%
4K	2−3 −2050%	43 +2050%

Cost per frame, $

1080p	5.10 −50.9%	3.38 +50.9%
1440p	49.75 −735%	5.96 +735%
4K	99.50 −972%	9.28 +972%

RTX 2060 Super has 51% lower cost per frame in 1080p
RTX 2060 Super has 735% lower cost per frame in 1440p
RTX 2060 Super has 972% lower cost per frame in 4K

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −810%	91 +810%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −1367%	88 +1367%
Elden Ring	5−6 −2320%	121 +2320%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	6−7 −1400%	90 +1400%
Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −630%	73 +630%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −1183%	77 +1183%
Forza Horizon 4	12−14 −1654%	228 +1654%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −3075%	127 +3075%
Red Dead Redemption 2	10−11 −1120%	122 +1120%

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	6−7 −2500%	156 +2500%
Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −540%	64 +540%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −1017%	67 +1017%
Dota 2	7−8 −2171%	159 +2171%
Elden Ring	5−6 −2660%	138 +2660%
Far Cry 5	16−18 −663%	122 +663%
Fortnite	14−16 −964%	149 +964%
Forza Horizon 4	12−14 −1315%	184 +1315%
Grand Theft Auto V	7−8 −1886%	139 +1886%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −2175%	91 +2175%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	24−27 −864%	241 +864%
Red Dead Redemption 2	10−11 −490%	59 +490%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −1450%	150−160 +1450%
World of Tanks	45−50 −469%	270−280 +469%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	6−7 −1267%	82 +1267%
Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −490%	59 +490%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −867%	58 +867%
Dota 2	7−8 −2543%	185 +2543%
Far Cry 5	16−18 −531%	100−110 +531%
Forza Horizon 4	12−14 −1100%	156 +1100%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	24−27 −408%	127 +408%

1440p
High Preset

Dota 2	0−1	86
Elden Ring	2−3 −3800%	78 +3800%
Grand Theft Auto V	1−2 −8500%	86 +8500%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	18−20 −821%	170−180 +821%
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3 −1800%	38 +1800%
World of Tanks	18−20 −1411%	270−280 +1411%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	2−3 −3600%	74 +3600%
Counter-Strike 2	9−10 −333%	39 +333%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −1167%	38 +1167%
Far Cry 5	7−8 −1871%	130−140 +1871%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5 −1825%	75−80 +1825%
Valorant	9−10 −1167%	114 +1167%

4K
High Preset

Dota 2	16−18 −419%	83 +419%
Elden Ring	1−2 −3300%	34 +3300%
Grand Theft Auto V	14−16 −453%	83 +453%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	7−8 −1871%	138 +1871%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −2300%	24 +2300%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 −453%	83 +453%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	2−3 −2000%	42 +2000%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −1700%	18 +1700%
Dota 2	16−18 −656%	121 +656%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −3200%	65−70 +3200%
Fortnite	1−2 −6200%	60−65 +6200%
Valorant	2−3 −2850%	59 +2850%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Valorant

202

+0%

202

+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Valorant

105

+0%

105

+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Valorant

180

+0%

180

+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Forza Horizon 4	114 +0%	114 +0%
Metro Exodus	87 +0%	87 +0%

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	23 +0%	23 +0%
Metro Exodus	31 +0%	31 +0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	45−50 +0%	45−50 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	65 +0%	65 +0%

This is how ATI HD 4850 and RTX 2060 Super compete in popular games:

RTX 2060 Super is 1452% faster in 900p
RTX 2060 Super is 203% faster in 1080p
RTX 2060 Super is 1479% faster in 1200p
RTX 2060 Super is 1575% faster in 1440p
RTX 2060 Super is 2050% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Grand Theft Auto V, with 1440p resolution and the High Preset, the RTX 2060 Super is 8500% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

RTX 2060 Super is ahead in 53 tests (85%)
there's a draw in 9 tests (15%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.67	42.95
Recency	25 June 2008	9 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	8 GB
Chip lithography	55 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	175 Watt

ATI HD 4850 has 59.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060 Super, on the other hand, has a 1508.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 358.3% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 4850 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.