Quadro K2000M Embedded vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking905not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.44no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameBroadwayEXK107
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)22 March 2012 (12 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 cores800384
Core clock speed500 MHz835 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1058 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate20.0033.86
Floating-point processing power0.8 TFLOPS0.8125 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4032

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s57.6 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 outputs1x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.0 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.1
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 22 March 2012
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 45 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5850 has 50% lower power consumption.

K2000M Embedded, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Quadro K2000M Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is a notebook graphics card while Quadro K2000M Embedded is a mobile workstation one.


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