Radeon HD 5850 vs GeForce GTX 760

Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850
GeForce GTX 760
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2013
GeForce GTX 760

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 760

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 760

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 760

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5850GeForce GTX 760
GPU NameCypress (Cypress PRO)vsGK104 (GK104-225-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1440vs1152
Compute Units18vs6
Core clock725 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs72vs96

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5850GeForce GTX 760
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5850GeForce GTX 760
TDP151 wattsvs170 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2009vs25 Jun 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    23.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    94.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 760
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 760
    2258.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better