Apple M2 8-core vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of Apple M2 8-core and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

Apple M2 8-core

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple M2 8-core

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.8x more core clock speed: 1398 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	15 Jul 2022 vs 7 January 2010
Core clock speed	1398 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

100x more pipelines: 800 vs 8

Pipelines	800 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple M2 8-core
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Name	Apple M2 8-core	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Geekbench - OpenCL	26644
PassMark - G3D Mark		763
PassMark - G2D Mark		403
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)

	Apple M2 8-core	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Essentials
Launch date	15 Jul 2022	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	850	848
Architecture		TeraScale 2
Code name		Broadway
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1398 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	40 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	2.863 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	800
Render output units	32
Texture Units	10 Watt
Floating-point performance		800.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		20 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		30 Watt
Transistor count		1,040 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR5-6400	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory clock speed		4000 MHz
Shared memory		0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX		11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a