Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon RX 5900 XT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4850
Radeon RX 5900 XT
Architecture
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
RV770
Navi 21
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
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1735 MHz
Core clock speed
625 MHz
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Floating-point performance
1,000.0 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
21,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
4352
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.00
471.9
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
993 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
63.55 GB/s
672.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
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+
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
OpenCL
1.1
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OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
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Vulkan
N/A
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