Radeon RX 5700 XT vs ATI HD 4850

Place in the ranking	813	90
Place by popularity	not in top-100	54
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.26	45.84
Power efficiency	1.67	13.15
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name	RV770	Navi 10
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	25 June 2008 (16 years ago)	7 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RX 5700 XT has 17531% better value for money than ATI HD 4850.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	800	2560
Core clock speed	625 MHz	1605 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1905 MHz
Number of transistors	956 million	10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.00	304.8
Floating-point processing power	1 TFLOPS	9.754 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	64
TMUs	40	160

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	246 mm	272 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	993 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	63.55 GB/s	448.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready	no data	+
Multi Monitor	no data	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.1	6.5
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI HD 4850 2.67

RX 5700 XT 42.88
+1506%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ATI HD 4850 1026

RX 5700 XT 16486
+1507%

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

ATI HD 4850 8972

RX 5700 XT 83961
+836%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

ATI HD 4850 11272

RX 5700 XT 146093
+1196%

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

ATI HD 4850 72891

RX 5700 XT 499658
+585%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	29 −1452%	450−500 +1452%
Full HD	39 −226%	127 +226%
1200p	19 −1479%	300−350 +1479%
1440p	4−5 −1800%	76 +1800%
4K	2−3 −2300%	48 +2300%

Cost per frame, $

1080p	5.10 −62.4%	3.14 +62.4%
1440p	49.75 −848%	5.25 +848%
4K	99.50 −1097%	8.31 +1097%

RX 5700 XT has 62% lower cost per frame in 1080p
RX 5700 XT has 848% lower cost per frame in 1440p
RX 5700 XT has 1097% lower cost per frame in 4K

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −830%	93 +830%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −1200%	78 +1200%
Elden Ring	5−6 −2560%	133 +2560%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	6−7 −1450%	93 +1450%
Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −660%	76 +660%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −1267%	82 +1267%
Forza Horizon 4	12−14 −1700%	234 +1700%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −3800%	156 +3800%
Red Dead Redemption 2	10−11 −1050%	115 +1050%

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	6−7 −3133%	194 +3133%
Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −540%	64 +540%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −1100%	72 +1100%
Dota 2	7−8 −1714%	127 +1714%
Elden Ring	5−6 −3040%	157 +3040%
Far Cry 5	16−18 −256%	57 +256%
Fortnite	14−16 −1200%	180−190 +1200%
Forza Horizon 4	12−14 −1385%	193 +1385%
Grand Theft Auto V	7−8 −1971%	145 +1971%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −2675%	111 +2675%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	24−27 −884%	246 +884%
Red Dead Redemption 2	10−11 −560%	66 +560%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −1450%	150−160 +1450%
World of Tanks	45−50 −469%	270−280 +469%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	6−7 −1250%	81 +1250%
Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −470%	57 +470%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −950%	63 +950%
Dota 2	7−8 −1371%	103 +1371%
Far Cry 5	16−18 −531%	100−110 +531%
Forza Horizon 4	12−14 −1215%	171 +1215%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	24−27 −728%	200−210 +728%

1440p
High Preset

Elden Ring	2−3 −4300%	88 +4300%
Grand Theft Auto V	1−2 −7800%	79 +7800%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	18−20 −821%	170−180 +821%
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3 −2000%	42 +2000%
World of Tanks	18−20 −1406%	270−280 +1406%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	2−3 −3900%	80 +3900%
Counter-Strike 2	9−10 −300%	36 +300%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −1200%	39 +1200%
Far Cry 5	7−8 −1871%	130−140 +1871%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5 −1825%	75−80 +1825%
Valorant	9−10 −1222%	119 +1222%

4K
High Preset

Dota 2	16−18 −394%	79 +394%
Elden Ring	1−2 −3800%	39 +3800%
Grand Theft Auto V	14−16 −427%	79 +427%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	7−8 −1957%	144 +1957%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −2600%	27 +2600%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 −427%	79 +427%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	2−3 −2500%	52 +2500%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −1600%	17 +1600%
Dota 2	16−18 −481%	93 +481%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −3200%	65−70 +3200%
Fortnite	1−2 −6200%	60−65 +6200%
Valorant	2−3 −3000%	62 +3000%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Valorant

190

+0%

190

+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Valorant

112

+0%

112

+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Valorant

159

+0%

159

+0%

1440p
High Preset

Dota 2

+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Forza Horizon 4	119 +0%	119 +0%
Metro Exodus	104 +0%	104 +0%

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	28 +0%	28 +0%
Metro Exodus	35 +0%	35 +0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	45−50 +0%	45−50 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	71 +0%	71 +0%

This is how ATI HD 4850 and RX 5700 XT compete in popular games:

RX 5700 XT is 1452% faster in 900p
RX 5700 XT is 226% faster in 1080p
RX 5700 XT is 1479% faster in 1200p
RX 5700 XT is 1800% faster in 1440p
RX 5700 XT is 2300% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Grand Theft Auto V, with 1440p resolution and the High Preset, the RX 5700 XT is 7800% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

RX 5700 XT is ahead in 53 tests (84%)
there's a draw in 10 tests (16%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.67	42.88
Recency	25 June 2008	7 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	8 GB
Chip lithography	55 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	225 Watt

ATI HD 4850 has 104.5% lower power consumption.

RX 5700 XT, on the other hand, has a 1506% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 4850 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.