Radeon RX 5500 XT vs Radeon HD 7850

Radeon RX 5500 XT
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Dec 2019
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500 XT

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5500 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5500 XT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500 XTRadeon HD 7850
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396))vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1408vs1024
Compute Units22vs16
Core clock1607 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs88vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500 XTRadeon HD 7850
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500 XTRadeon HD 7850
TDP130 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date12 Dec 2019vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    59.04 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    162.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    224.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500 XT
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better