Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon RX 6850 XT - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Radeon RX 6850 XT

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Vega

Navi 21

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2020

2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2100 MHz

2250 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

Number of transistors

26,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

325 Watt

Texture fill rate

648.0

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

18 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

576.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

1.3