Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GT 720M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5850 vs GeForce GT 720M
Radeon HD 5850
2048
GeForce GT 720M
475
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GT 720M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Cypress
N14M-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2009
April 2013
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
938 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
96
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.20
12.13
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
1800 - 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
-
DDR3
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
-
Up to 2560x1600
LVDS signal support
-
Up to 1920x1200
VGA аnalog display support
-
Up to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
Up to 2560x1600
HDCP content protection
-
+
HDMI
+
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126
Blu-Ray 3D Support
-
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+