ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830 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, Technologies.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 24 Watt vs 30 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	24 Watt vs 30 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Around 26% higher core clock speed: 628 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 26% higher texture fill rate: 25.12 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
Around 26% better floating-point performance: 1,004.8 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
2.5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	628 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	25.12 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,004.8 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Broadway	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	500 MHz	628 MHz
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops	1,004.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	800	800
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s	25.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	24 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 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	25.6 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a