Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon RX 6550S - video card comparison

Radeon HD 5850

Radeon RX 6550S

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Cypress

Navi 24

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

September 2009

January 2023

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

2170 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

2,088.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1440

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

50 Watt (35 - 50 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

52.20

153.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.2

2.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3