GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated73
Place by popularitynot in top-10053
Power efficiencyno data27.51
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameBroadwayAD107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores8003072
Core clock speed628 MHz1545 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1890 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate25.12181.4
Floating-point processing power1.005 TFLOPS11.61 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4096
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 115 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5850 Mac Edition has 283.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
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