Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 8850M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon HD 8850M
Radeon HD 5850
2048
Radeon HD 8850M
1002
Radeon HD 5850
Radeon HD 8850M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Cypress
Venus
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2009
December 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
725 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
575 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,088.0 gflops
800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1440
640
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
52.20
25.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128.0 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131