Radeon RX 5700 vs Radeon HD 5850

Radeon RX 5700
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Jul 2019
Radeon RX 5700
Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5700

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 5850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5700

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5700

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5700Radeon HD 5850
GPU NameNavi 10 (Navi 10 Pro)vsCypress (Cypress PRO)
Fab Process7 nmvs40 nm
Die Size254 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,154 million
Shaders2304vs1440
Compute Units36vs18
Core clock1465 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs256vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5700Radeon HD 5850
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5700Radeon HD 5850
TDP180 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date7 Jul 2019vs30 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5700
    104.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5700
    416.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5700
    448.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5700
    7480.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better