RTX A4500 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Place in the ranking	914	80
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.39	22.11
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	Broadway	GA104
Market segment	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Release date	7 January 2010 (15 years ago)	22 March 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	800	5888
Core clock speed	500 MHz	930 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1500 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	140 Watt
Texture fill rate	20.00	276.0
Floating-point processing power	0.8 TFLOPS	17.66 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	96
TMUs	40	184
Tensor Cores	no data	184
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	46

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	large	large
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	512.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.0	6.7
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	-	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	19 −2005%	400−450 +2005%
Full HD	23 −2074%	500−550 +2074%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −880%	95−100 +880%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −1860%	95−100 +1860%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4 −3600%	110−120 +3600%
Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −880%	95−100 +880%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −1860%	95−100 +1860%
Forza Horizon 4	10−12 −1955%	220−230 +1955%
Metro Exodus	2−3 −5100%	100−110 +5100%
Red Dead Redemption 2	8−9 −975%	85−90 +975%

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4 −3600%	110−120 +3600%
Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −880%	95−100 +880%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −1860%	95−100 +1860%
Dota 2	4−5 −3250%	130−140 +3250%
Far Cry 5	12−14 −700%	100−110 +700%
Fortnite	9−10 −2000%	180−190 +2000%
Forza Horizon 4	10−12 −1955%	220−230 +1955%
Grand Theft Auto V	4−5 −3250%	130−140 +3250%
Metro Exodus	2−3 −5100%	100−110 +5100%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	18−20 −1005%	210−220 +1005%
Red Dead Redemption 2	8−9 −975%	85−90 +975%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9 −1950%	160−170 +1950%
World of Tanks	35−40 −654%	270−280 +654%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4 −3600%	110−120 +3600%
Counter-Strike 2	10−11 −880%	95−100 +880%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −1860%	95−100 +1860%
Dota 2	4−5 −3250%	130−140 +3250%
Far Cry 5	12−14 −700%	100−110 +700%
Forza Horizon 4	10−12 −1955%	220−230 +1955%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	18−20 −1005%	210−220 +1005%

1440p
High Preset

Grand Theft Auto V	0−1	85−90
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	12−14 −1358%	170−180 +1358%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −4600%	45−50 +4600%
World of Tanks	12−14 −2283%	280−290 +2283%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −1533%	45−50 +1533%
Far Cry 5	6−7 −2300%	140−150 +2300%
Forza Horizon 5	2−3 −3700%	75−80 +3700%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 −1560%	80−85 +1560%
Valorant	8−9 −1788%	150−160 +1788%

4K
High Preset

Dota 2	16−18 −481%	90−95 +481%
Grand Theft Auto V	14−16 −520%	90−95 +520%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	5−6 −2900%	150−160 +2900%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −2900%	30−33 +2900%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 −520%	90−95 +520%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	1−2 −5300%	50−55 +5300%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −1000%	21−24 +1000%
Dota 2	16−18 −481%	90−95 +481%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −7000%	70−75 +7000%
Fortnite	0−1	65−70
Valorant	2−3 −3950%	80−85 +3950%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Forza Horizon 5	110−120 +0%	110−120 +0%
Valorant	180−190 +0%	180−190 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Forza Horizon 5	110−120 +0%	110−120 +0%
Valorant	180−190 +0%	180−190 +0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Forza Horizon 5	110−120 +0%	110−120 +0%
Valorant	180−190 +0%	180−190 +0%

1440p
High Preset

Dota 2

85−90

+0%

85−90

+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	75−80 +0%	75−80 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	130−140 +0%	130−140 +0%
Metro Exodus	95−100 +0%	95−100 +0%

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	21−24 +0%	21−24 +0%
Metro Exodus	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2	21−24 +0%	21−24 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	75−80 +0%	75−80 +0%
Forza Horizon 5	40−45 +0%	40−45 +0%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5850 and RTX A4500 Mobile compete in popular games:

RTX A4500 Mobile is 2005% faster in 900p
RTX A4500 Mobile is 2074% faster in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Far Cry 5, with 4K resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RTX A4500 Mobile is 7000% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

RTX A4500 Mobile is ahead in 46 tests (75%)
there's a draw in 15 tests (25%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.84	43.21
Recency	7 January 2010	22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	140 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5850 has 366.7% lower power consumption.

RTX A4500 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 2248.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 12 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX A4500 Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is a notebook graphics card while RTX A4500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.