ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition vs R7 360

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking515not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.86no data
Power efficiency5.56no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameTobagoBroadway
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Designreferenceno data
Release date18 June 2015 (9 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$109 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores768800
Core clock speedno data628 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,080 million1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate50.4025.12
Floating-point processing power1.613 TFLOPS1.005 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4840

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length165 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pinno data
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed6000 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth112 GB/s64 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

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

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
PowerTune+-
TrueAudio+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1211.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.35.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan+N/A
Mantle+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 June 2015 7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 30 Watt

R7 360 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

ATI Mobility HD 5850 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 360 and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 360 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition is a notebook one.


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