Radeon HD 5850 Overview

Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009

Core Configuration

GPU	Cypress
Architecture	ATI_TeraScale
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs	1440 : 72 : 32
Raytracing Cores	none
Performance	2088.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size	1024 Mb
Memory Bus Width	256 bit
Memory Speed	1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth	128.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

Radeon HD 7750
100%
GeForce GT 740
98%
Radeon R7 250
93%
GeForce GT 730 GDDR5
89%
GeForce GT 640
89%
Radeon HD 7730
75%
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
57%
Radeon R7 240
57%
GeForce GT 720
39%
Radeon HD 5970
31%
Radeon HD 5870
20%
Radeon HD 6970
20%
Radeon HD 6990
19%
Radeon HD 6950
17%
GeForce GTX 590
17%
Radeon HD 5850
15%
Radeon HD 6870
15%
Radeon HD 6930
14%
Radeon HD 5830
13%
GeForce GTX 580
12%
Radeon HD 6850
11%
GeForce GTX 570
10%
Radeon HD 6770
10%
Radeon HD 5770
10%
Radeon HD 4890
10%
GeForce GTX 480
10%
Radeon HD 6790
10%
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
10%
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
9%
Radeon HD 4870
9%

Data interpolated by architecture, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 5850 is a graphics card released by AMD on 30 Sep 2009. The graphics card houses the Cypress die, based on the ATI_TeraScale architecture which packs 2,154 million transistors on a 40 nm, 334 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 5850 pros and cons

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Specifications

Compared to similar performing cards


	Radeon HD 5850	Radeon HD 7750	Radeon HD 6870	Radeon HD 6930	Radeon HD 5830
		compare	compare	compare	compare
Shader units	1440	512	1120	1280	1120
ROPs	32	16	32	32	16
Graphics processor	Cypress	Cape Verde	Barts	Cayman	Cypress
Process size	40 nm	28 nm	40 nm	40 nm	40 nm
Memory	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1125 MHz 4500 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1050 MHz 4200 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1200 MHz 4800 MHz effective)	1024 Mb GDDR5 (1000 MHz 4000 MHz effective)
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit
Memory bandwidth	128.00 Gb/s	72.00 Gb/s	134.00 Gb/s	154.00 Gb/s	128.00 Gb/s
Release date	30 Sep 2009	15 Feb 2012	21 Oct 2010	1 Dec 2011	25 Feb 2010

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