ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition vs ATI HD 5490

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name	Cedar	R480
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	28 October 2012 (11 years ago)	10 September 2006 (18 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	80	no data
Core clock speed	650 MHz	520 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	160 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	19 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	5.200	8.320
Floating-point processing power	0.104 gflops	no data
ROPs	4	16
TMUs	8	16

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	170 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin

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	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1080 MHz
Memory bandwidth	8 GB/s	34.56 GB/s

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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	28 October 2012	10 September 2006
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	130 nm

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