ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition vs HD Graphics 520

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking915not rated
Place by popularity86not in top-100
Power efficiency10.09no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.0 (2015−2016)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameSkylake GT2Broadway
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 September 2015 (10 years ago)7 January 2010 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores192800
Core clock speed300 MHz628 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm+40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate21.6025.12
Floating-point processing power0.3456 TFLOPS1.005 TFLOPS
ROPs316
TMUs2440
L1 Cacheno data80 KB
L2 Cacheno data256 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceRing BusMXM-B (3.0)

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount32 GB1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data64 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan+N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2015 7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 30 Watt

HD Graphics 520 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

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