Radeon Pro 5500M vs ATI Mobility HD 5850

Place in the ranking	903	306
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.40	14.28
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name	Broadway	Navi 14
Market segment	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)	13 November 2019 (5 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	1536
Core clock speed	500 MHz	1000 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1450 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	85 Watt
Texture fill rate	20.00	139.2
Floating-point processing power	0.8 TFLOPS	4.454 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	32
TMUs	40	96

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	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	192.0 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.0	6.5
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131

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 −795%	170−180 +795%
Full HD	24 −133%	56 +133%
1440p	5−6 −980%	54 +980%
4K	2−3 −1250%	27 +1250%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

−600%

27−30
+600%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 −471%	40−45 +471%
Battlefield 5	1−2 −5700%	55−60 +5700%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 −620%	35−40 +620%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −600%	27−30 +600%
Far Cry 5	3−4 −1267%	40−45 +1267%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 −860%	45−50 +860%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −1300%	110−120 +1300%
Hitman 3	7−8 −386%	30−35 +386%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −383%	85−90 +383%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −1775%	75 +1775%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 −480%	55−60 +480%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 −143%	85−90 +143%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 −471%	40−45 +471%
Battlefield 5	1−2 −5700%	55−60 +5700%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 −900%	50 +900%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −600%	27−30 +600%
Far Cry 5	3−4 −1267%	40−45 +1267%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 −860%	45−50 +860%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −1300%	110−120 +1300%
Hitman 3	7−8 −386%	30−35 +386%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −383%	85−90 +383%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −1175%	51 +1175%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 −480%	55−60 +480%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14 −242%	40−45 +242%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 −143%	85−90 +143%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 −471%	40−45 +471%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 −600%	35 +600%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −600%	27−30 +600%
Far Cry 5	3−4 −1267%	40−45 +1267%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −1300%	110−120 +1300%
Hitman 3	7−8 −386%	30−35 +386%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −383%	85−90 +383%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 −480%	55−60 +480%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14 −225%	39 +225%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 −143%	85−90 +143%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

−1250%

54
+1250%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4 −1033%	30−35 +1033%
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4 −800%	27−30 +800%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −800%	18−20 +800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2 −1800%	18−20 +1800%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −900%	10−11 +900%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −900%	20−22 +900%
Hitman 3	7−8 −200%	21−24 +200%
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7 −500%	35−40 +500%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2 −1900%	20−22 +1900%
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12 −945%	115 +945%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

5−6

−600%

35
+600%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

1−2

−1200%

12−14
+1200%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −400%	10−11 +400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2 −800%	9−10 +800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	0−1	9−10
Far Cry 5	1−2 −900%	10−11 +900%
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1	7−8

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4

−433%

16
+433%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	27−30 +0%	27−30 +0%
Metro Exodus	60−65 +0%	60−65 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	27−30 +0%	27−30 +0%
Metro Exodus	32 +0%	32 +0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

27−30

+0%

27−30

+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	95−100 +0%	95−100 +0%
Metro Exodus	41 +0%	41 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	30−35 +0%	30−35 +0%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	16−18 +0%	16−18 +0%
Hitman 3	12−14 +0%	12−14 +0%
Horizon Zero Dawn	90−95 +0%	90−95 +0%
Metro Exodus	18−20 +0%	18−20 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18 +0%	16−18 +0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +0%	3−4 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	24−27 +0%	24−27 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	18−20 +0%	18−20 +0%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5850 and Pro 5500M compete in popular games:

Pro 5500M is 795% faster in 900p
Pro 5500M is 133% faster in 1080p
Pro 5500M is 980% faster in 1440p
Pro 5500M is 1250% faster in 4K

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

in Battlefield 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the Pro 5500M is 5700% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

Pro 5500M is ahead in 53 tests (76%)
there's a draw in 17 tests (24%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.91	17.56
Recency	7 January 2010	13 November 2019
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	85 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5850 has 183.3% lower power consumption.

Pro 5500M, on the other hand, has a 819.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Pro 5500M 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 Radeon Pro 5500M 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.