AMD Radeon Pro 5500M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

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AMD Radeon Pro 5500M AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1450MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500M +312%

4.454 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500M

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Nov 2019

Release Date

Jan 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1450 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

10

1536

Shading Units

800

96

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

139.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

8.909 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.454 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Granville

Navi 14 ULA

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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