Radeon HD 8850M and Mobility Radeon HD 5650 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8850M
Mobility Radeon HD 5650
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Venus
Madison Pro
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2012
January 2010
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
725 MHz
650 MHz
Core clock speed
575 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
800.0 gflops
360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
400
Power consumption (TDP)
-
15-19 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.00
9.000
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
GDDR3, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A