ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5770 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5770 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5770

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5770

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 628 MHz

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 628 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Around 93% higher texture fill rate: 25.12 GTexel / s vs 13 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 800 vs 400
Around 93% better floating-point performance: 1,004.8 gflops vs 520.0 gflops
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 3200 MHz

Texture fill rate	25.12 GTexel / s vs 13 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 400
Floating-point performance	1,004.8 gflops vs 520.0 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 3200 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5770	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Madison	Broadway
Launch date	7 January 2010	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	628 MHz
Floating-point performance	520.0 gflops	1,004.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	400	800
Texture fill rate	13 GTexel / s	25.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0