ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 vs ATI Mobility HD 5850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking958not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.43no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameBroadwayM18
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (15 years ago)1 July 2004 (21 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 cores80012
Core clock speed500 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data350 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million160 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.002.800
Floating-point processing power0.8 TFLOPSno data
ROPs168
TMUs408
L1 Cache80 KBno data
L2 Cache256 KBno data

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 sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 8x

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz300 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s19.2 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 1 July 2004
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

ATI Mobility HD 5850 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

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