Radeon HD 5850: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon HD 5850 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 4.50% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 5850 sales 30 September 2009 at a recommended price of $299. This is a TeraScale 2 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 128.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 151 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 5850: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking673
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.54
Power efficiency2.40of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameCypress
Market segmentDesktop
Release date30 September 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 5850's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 5850's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1440of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed725 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors2,154 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)151 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate52.20of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power2.088 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs32of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs72of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache144 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache512 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 5850 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length241 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 5850: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1000 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 5850. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 5850, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 5850. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

ATI HD 5850
4.50

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ATI HD 5850 1988
Samples: 2872

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

ATI HD 5850 3401

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.

ATI HD 5850 13267

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 5850 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

900p59
Full HD57

Cost per frame, $

1080p5.25

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 21−24
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
Hogwarts Legacy 10−11

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 20−22
Counter-Strike 2 21−24
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
Far Cry 5 14−16
Fortnite 27−30
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
Forza Horizon 5 12−14
Hogwarts Legacy 10−11
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
Valorant 60−65

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 20−22
Counter-Strike 2 21−24
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 80−85
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
Dota 2 40−45
Far Cry 5 14−16
Fortnite 27−30
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
Forza Horizon 5 12−14
Grand Theft Auto V 16−18
Hogwarts Legacy 10−11
Metro Exodus 9−10
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
Valorant 60−65

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 20−22
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
Dota 2 40−45
Far Cry 5 14−16
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
Hogwarts Legacy 10−11
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
Valorant 60−65

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 27−30

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 10−11
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 35−40
Grand Theft Auto V 5−6
Metro Exodus 4−5
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 30−35
Valorant 50−55

1440p
Ultra

Battlefield 5 4−5
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
Far Cry 5 9−10
Forza Horizon 4 10−12
Hogwarts Legacy 5−6
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 7−8

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 9−10

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 16−18
Hogwarts Legacy 0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
Valorant 24−27

4K
Ultra

Battlefield 5 2−3
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Dota 2 16−18
Far Cry 5 4−5
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
Hogwarts Legacy 0−1
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 5−6

4K
Epic

Fortnite 5−6

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 5850's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Radeon R7 350 107.56
Radeon 550 107.11
Radeon HD 5850 100

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 5850 is GeForce GTX 460 SE, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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