GeForce GTX 870M and Radeon HD 5850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 870M vs Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GTX 870M
3552
Radeon HD 5850
2048
GeForce GTX 870M
Radeon HD 5850
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N15P-GT
Cypress
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
September 2009
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
967 MHz
-
Core clock speed
941 MHz
725 MHz
CUDA cores
1344
-
Floating-point performance
2,599 gflops
2,088.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1344
1440
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
151 Watt
Texture fill rate
108.3
52.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2500 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
120.0 GB/s
128.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
GDDR5
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 3840x2160
-
HDCP content protection
+
-
HDMI
+
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-