Radeon X850 PRO: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon X850 PRO provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.17% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
ATI started Radeon X850 PRO sales 1 December 2004 at a recommended price of $279. This is a R400 architecture desktop card based on 130 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.52 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 33.28 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon X850 PRO: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1444 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | R400 (2004−2008) | |
| GPU code name | R480 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 December 2004 (20 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $279 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Radeon X850 PRO's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon X850 PRO's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 507 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 160 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 6.084 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 12 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 12 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon X850 PRO and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon X850 PRO: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 520 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 33.28 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon X850 PRO. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon X850 PRO, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0b (9_2) | |
| OpenGL | 2.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon X850 PRO. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
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.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon X850 PRO is GeForce 7350 LE, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon X850 PRO according to our statistics.
