Radeon R7 M440 vs Radeon HD 5850

Radeon R7 M440
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 15 May 2016
Radeon R7 M440
Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M440

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 M440Radeon HD 5850
GPU NameJet (Jet PRO)vsCypress (Cypress PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders320vs1440
Compute Units5vs18
Core clock780 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs20vs72

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M440Radeon HD 5850
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M440Radeon HD 5850
TDP0 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date15 May 2016vs30 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M440
    6.84 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M440
    17.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 M440
    16.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 M440
    547.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better