ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 50 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 628 MHz
  • Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 25.12 GTexel / s
  • Around 11% better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 1,004.8 gflops
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 628 MHz
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s vs 25.12 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops vs 1,004.8 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
PassMark - G3D Mark 1085
PassMark - G2D Mark 219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 585.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.86
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 20.108
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 98.606
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3077
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3077

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Broadway Broadway
Launch date 7 January 2010 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 1216
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 628 MHz 700 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,004.8 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 800 800
Texture fill rate 25.12 GTexel / s 28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) 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 64.0 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

HDMI 1.3a