Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce FX 5800 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce FX 5800
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
Cypress
NV30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x Molex
Core clock speed
725 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
125 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
-
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
44 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.20
3.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0a
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A