Radeon HD 5850 and GT215 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 5850

GT215

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Cypress

GT215

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2009

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

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Core clock speed

725 MHz

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Floating-point performance

2,088.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,154 million

727 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1440

96

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

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Texture fill rate

52.20

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

2000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

-

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

-

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

3.3

Shader Model

5.0

4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

-

VP4