ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs ATI Radeon X300

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and ATI Radeon X300 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), 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).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

ATI Radeon X300

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 33% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 375 MHz
13.3x more texture fill rate: 20 GTexel / s vs 1.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 36 Watt
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
10x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 400 MHz
18.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 763 vs 41
Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 209

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s vs 1.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 36 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	763 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 vs 209

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

763

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

403

209

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850	ATI Radeon X300
PassMark - G3D Mark	763	41
PassMark - G2D Mark	403	209
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	7.457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	512.081
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850	ATI Radeon X300
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rage 9
Code name	Broadway	RV370
Launch date	7 January 2010	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	844	847
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	375 MHz
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s	1.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	36 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a