Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition sales 7 January 2010. This is a laptop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 30 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Broadway
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	800	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	628 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	1,040 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	25.12	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	1.005 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	16	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	40	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0
OpenGL	4.4	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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