Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon 8500
Radeon HD 5850
2048
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon HD 5850
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Cypress
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
725 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
-
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
52.20
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
8.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A