Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon HD 4860

Radeon RX 5700 XT
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Jul 2019
Radeon RX 5700 XT
Radeon HD 4860
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 4860

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5700 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 4860

95 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 5700 XT .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5700 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5700 XT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5700 XTRadeon HD 4860
GPU NameNavi 10 (Navi 10 XT)vsRV790 (RV790 GT)
Fab Process7 nmvs55 nm
Die Size254 mm²vs282 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs959 million
Shaders2560vs640
Compute Units40vs8
Core clock1605 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs64vs16
TMUs256vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5700 XTRadeon HD 4860
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs750 MHz
3000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5700 XTRadeon HD 4860
TDP225 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date7 Jul 2019vs9 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    112.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4860
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    449.30 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4860
    22.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    448.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4860
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    8980.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4860
    896.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better