ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 videocard review

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 videocard released by ATI; release date: 7 January 2010. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on TeraScale 2 microarchitecture codenamed Broadway.

Core clock speed - 500 MHz. Texture fill rate - 20 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 800. Floating-point performance - 800.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 1,040 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 30 Watt.

Memory type: DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 4000 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 64.0 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38582
763
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
403
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop
Face Detection
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
939.363 mPixels/s
7.457 mPixels/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop
Ocean Surface Simulation
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
14101.507 Frames/s
512.081 Frames/s
GFXBench 4.0
Car Chase Offscreen
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
34770 Frames
1643 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823 Frames
3314 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
3356 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
Car Chase Offscreen
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
34770.000 Fps
1643.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0
Manhattan
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
27823.000 Fps
3314.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
3356.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 763
PassMark - G2D Mark 403
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection 7.457 mPixels/s
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation 512.081 Frames/s
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen 1643 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 3314 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3356 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen 1643.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan 3314.000 Fps
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 3356.000 Fps

Games performance

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Low, 1024x768160.00
Medium, 1360x76851.80
High, 1360x76833.20
Ultra, 1920x108020.20

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x60066.60
Medium, 1360x76832.75
High, 1600x90019.00
Ultra, 1920x10805.50

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Medium, 1024x76857.60
High, 1024x76839.80
Ultra, 1920x108010.70

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2
Code name Broadway
Launch date 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating 853
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm
Pipelines 800
Texture fill rate 20 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

HDMI 1.3a