Radeon HD 5950 vs HD 5850

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	584	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.79	no data
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Cypress	Hemlock
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	30 September 2009 (14 years old)	no data
Launch price (MSRP)	$299	no data
Current price	$120 (0.4x MSRP)	$37

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1440	1440
Core clock speed	725 MHz	725 MHz
Number of transistors	2,154 million	2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	151 Watt	302 Watt
Texture fill rate	52.20	52.20
Floating-point performance	2,088.0 gflops	no data

Size and 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 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm	280 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

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	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB/s	128.0 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x DisplayPort 1.1
HDMI	+	+

API support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Advantages and disadvantages

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Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

302 Watt

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