Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon HD 5830

Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850
Radeon HD 5830
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 5830

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 5830

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5850Radeon HD 5830
GPU NameCypress (Cypress PRO)vsCypress (Cypress LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size334 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors2,154 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders1440vs1120
Compute Units18vs14
Core clock725 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs72vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5850Radeon HD 5830
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5850Radeon HD 5830
TDP151 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2009vs25 Feb 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5830
    12.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5830
    44.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5830
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5830
    1792.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better