AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8790M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8790M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 70% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
• Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 21.6 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1306 vs 763
• Around 86% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 751 vs 403
• Around 71% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 12.759 vs 7.457
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2181 vs 1643
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2181 vs 1643

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

• 2.1x more pipelines: 800 vs 384
• Around 16% better floating-point performance: 800.0 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
• Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 512.081 vs 465.631
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3314 vs 2656
• Around 67% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 2014
• Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3314 vs 2656
• Around 67% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 2014

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8790M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1306 763
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	751 403
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12.759 7.457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	465.631 512.081
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2181 1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2656 3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2014 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2181 1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2656 3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2014 3356

Compare specifications (specs)