Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce 8800 GTS 512 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5850 vs GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Radeon HD 5850
2048
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
585
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Cypress
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
December 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
725 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
128
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
135 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.20
41.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
1640 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
52.48 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A