Radeon HD 7850M and Radeon RX 550 512SP - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7850M
Radeon RX 550 512SP
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Heathrow Pro
Baffin
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2012
October 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1071 MHz
Core clock speed
675 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
864.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
512
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.00
34.27
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2