Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon RX 5800 XT - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7850

Radeon RX 5800 XT

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

Navi 23

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2012

-

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

1775 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,761 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

3328

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

275 Watt

Texture fill rate

55.04

369.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

+

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

12

12 Ultimate (12_1)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

-

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

+

-

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-