ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2009
Jan 2022
Generation
Evergreen
Navi II
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
2248 MHz
Base Clock
—
2310 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2815 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
64bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
143.9GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
18
16
Shading Units
1440
1024
TMUs
72
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
RT Cores
—
16
L3 Cache
—
16 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
90.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
5.765 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
11.53 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
Navi 24
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Navi 24 XT(215-135000006)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
RDNA 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
6 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
5.4 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
107 mm²
Board Design
TDP
151W
107W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 2.11x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.