ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Quadro M500M

Place in the ranking	772	909
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	7.39	4.67
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	GM108	Broadway
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Release date	27 April 2016 (8 years ago)	7 January 2010 (14 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 cores	384	800
Core clock speed	1029 MHz	500 MHz
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	17.98	20.00
Floating-point processing power	0.8632 TFLOPS	0.8 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	16
TMUs	16	40

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 size	large	large
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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 type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	64 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 Connectors

No outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus	+	-
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	5.0	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Quadro M500M 3.02
+58.1%

ATI Mobility HD 5850 1.91

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Quadro M500M 7959
+42.3%

ATI Mobility HD 5850 5592

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:

900p	30−35 +57.9%	19 −57.9%
Full HD	15 −66.7%	25 +66.7%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7
+50%

4−5

−50%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 +28.6%	7−8 −28.6%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Battlefield 5	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 +40%	5−6 −40%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +100%	3−4 −100%
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 +100%	8−9 −100%
Hitman 3	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24 +27.8%	18−20 −27.8%
Metro Exodus	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 +75%	4−5 −75%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 +20%	10−11 −20%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +11.4%	35−40 −11.4%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 +28.6%	7−8 −28.6%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Battlefield 5	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 +40%	5−6 −40%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +100%	3−4 −100%
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 +100%	8−9 −100%
Hitman 3	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24 +27.8%	18−20 −27.8%
Metro Exodus	4−5 +100%	2−3 −100%
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 +75%	4−5 −75%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 +20%	10−11 −20%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	20 +66.7%	12−14 −66.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +11.4%	35−40 −11.4%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 +28.6%	7−8 −28.6%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 +40%	5−6 −40%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +100%	3−4 −100%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 +100%	8−9 −100%
Hitman 3	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24 +27.8%	18−20 −27.8%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 +20%	10−11 −20%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +16.7%	12−14 −16.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +11.4%	35−40 −11.4%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

7−8
+75%

4−5

−75%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	5−6 +66.7%	3−4 −66.7%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 +66.7%	3−4 −66.7%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Far Cry 5	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Hitman 3	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 +33.3%	6−7 −33.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20 +63.6%	10−12 −63.6%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

6−7
+20%

5−6

−20%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	1−2	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2	0−1
Far Cry 5	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	1−2	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5
+33.3%

3−4

−33.3%

This is how Quadro M500M and ATI Mobility HD 5850 compete in popular games:

Quadro M500M is 58% faster in 900p
ATI Mobility HD 5850 is 67% faster in 1080p

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

in Battlefield 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the Quadro M500M is 400% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

Quadro M500M is ahead in 49 tests (92%)
there's a draw in 4 tests (8%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	3.02	1.91
Recency	27 April 2016	7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm

Quadro M500M has a 58.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

The Quadro M500M is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro M500M is a mobile workstation card while Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.