Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition sales 7 January 2010. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 30 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Broadway
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years old)

Technical specs

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	800	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	628 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	1,040 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	25.12	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	1,004.8 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Width	MXM Module

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0
OpenGL	4.4	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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