Radeon Pro 5500M vs ATI Mobility HD 5850

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Mobility Radeon HD 5850 with Radeon Pro 5500M, including specs and performance data.

ATI Mobility HD 5850
2010
1 GB GDDR5, 30 Watt
1.91

Pro 5500M outperforms ATI Mobility HD 5850 by a whopping 819% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking909307
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.6715.16
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameBroadwayNavi 14
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)13 November 2019 (4 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 cores8001536
Core clock speed500 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1450 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt85 Watt
Texture fill rate20.00139.2
Floating-point processing power0.8 TFLOPS4.454 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4096

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 sizelargemedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s192.0 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p19
−795%
170−180
+795%
Full HD25
−136%
59
+136%
1440p5−6
−960%
53
+960%
4K3−4
−867%
29
+867%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−600%
27−30
+600%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−471%
40−45
+471%
Battlefield 5 1−2
−5700%
55−60
+5700%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−620%
35−40
+620%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−600%
27−30
+600%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−1267%
40−45
+1267%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−860%
45−50
+860%
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
−1300%
110−120
+1300%
Hitman 3 7−8
−386%
30−35
+386%
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
−383%
85−90
+383%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−1775%
75
+1775%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−480%
55−60
+480%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−143%
85−90
+143%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−471%
40−45
+471%
Battlefield 5 1−2
−5700%
55−60
+5700%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−900%
50
+900%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−600%
27−30
+600%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−1267%
40−45
+1267%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−860%
45−50
+860%
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
−1300%
110−120
+1300%
Hitman 3 7−8
−386%
30−35
+386%
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
−383%
85−90
+383%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−1175%
51
+1175%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−480%
55−60
+480%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−242%
40−45
+242%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−143%
85−90
+143%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−471%
40−45
+471%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−600%
35
+600%
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
−600%
27−30
+600%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−1267%
40−45
+1267%
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
−1300%
110−120
+1300%
Hitman 3 7−8
−386%
30−35
+386%
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
−383%
85−90
+383%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−480%
55−60
+480%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−225%
39
+225%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−143%
85−90
+143%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−1250%
54
+1250%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 3−4
−1033%
30−35
+1033%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
−800%
27−30
+800%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−800%
18−20
+800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
−1800%
18−20
+1800%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
−900%
10−11
+900%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−900%
20−22
+900%
Hitman 3 7−8
−200%
21−24
+200%
Horizon Zero Dawn 6−7
−500%
35−40
+500%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
−1900%
20−22
+1900%
Watch Dogs: Legion 10−12
−945%
115
+945%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
−600%
35
+600%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
−1200%
12−14
+1200%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−400%
10−11
+400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−800%
9−10
+800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 0−1 9−10
Far Cry 5 1−2
−900%
10−11
+900%
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1 7−8

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−433%
16
+433%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 27−30
+0%
27−30
+0%
Metro Exodus 60−65
+0%
60−65
+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 27−30
+0%
27−30
+0%
Metro Exodus 32
+0%
32
+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 27−30
+0%
27−30
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 95−100
+0%
95−100
+0%
Metro Exodus 41
+0%
41
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 16−18
+0%
16−18
+0%
Hitman 3 12−14
+0%
12−14
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 90−95
+0%
90−95
+0%
Metro Exodus 18−20
+0%
18−20
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 16−18
+0%
16−18
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 18−20
+0%
18−20
+0%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5850 and Pro 5500M compete in popular games:

  • Pro 5500M is 795% faster in 900p
  • Pro 5500M is 136% faster in 1080p
  • Pro 5500M is 960% faster in 1440p
  • Pro 5500M is 867% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Battlefield 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the Pro 5500M is 5700% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Pro 5500M is ahead in 53 tests (76%)
  • there's a draw in 17 tests (24%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.91 17.56
Recency 7 January 2010 13 November 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 85 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5850 has 183.3% lower power consumption.

Pro 5500M, on the other hand, has a 819.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Pro 5500M is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is a notebook graphics card while Radeon Pro 5500M is a mobile workstation one.


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