ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility HD 5670 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameMadisonBroadway
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date22 April 2010 (14 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 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 cores400800
Core clock speed650 MHz628 MHz
Number of transistors627 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate13.0025.12
Floating-point processing power0.52 TFLOPS1.005 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2040

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed795 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.44 GB/s64 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 April 2010 7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 30 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5670 Mac Edition has an age advantage of 3 months, and 100% lower power consumption.

ATI Mobility HD 5850 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

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