Radeon RX 5700M vs ATI HD 4850

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking812not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.26no data
Power efficiency1.66no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameRV770Navi 10
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 June 2008 (16 years ago)1 March 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores8002304
Core clock speed625 MHz1465 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1720 MHz
Number of transistors956 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt180 Watt
Texture fill rate25.00247.7
Floating-point processing power1 TFLOPS7.926 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs40144

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length246 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed993 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth63.55 GB/s384.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 June 2008 1 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 180 Watt

ATI HD 4850 has 63.6% lower power consumption.

RX 5700M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon RX 5700M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4850 is a desktop card while Radeon RX 5700M is a notebook one.


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