Radeon HD 8750M vs Radeon HD 5850

Radeon HD 8750M
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 26 Feb 2013
Radeon HD 8750M
Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8750M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 5850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5850

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8750MRadeon HD 5850
GPU NameMars (Mars PRO)vsCypress (Cypress PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders384vs1440
Compute Units6vs18
Core clock620 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8750MRadeon HD 5850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8750MRadeon HD 5850
TDP0 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date26 Feb 2013vs30 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8750M
    6.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8750M
    18.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8750M
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8750M
    595.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better