Radeon R5 430 OEM vs ATI Mobility HD 5850

Place in the ranking	901	801
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.43	3.71
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	Broadway	Oland
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)	30 June 2016 (8 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	384
Core clock speed	500 MHz	730 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	780 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	20.00	18.72
Floating-point processing power	0.8 TFLOPS	0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	40	24

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	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Width	no data	1-slot
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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	36.8 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

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
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 −26.3%	24−27 +26.3%
Full HD	23 −30.4%	30−35 +30.4%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

4−5

−25%

5−6
+25%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 −28.6%	9−10 +28.6%
Battlefield 5	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 −20%	6−7 +20%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Far Cry 5	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 −20%	6−7 +20%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −25%	10−11 +25%
Hitman 3	7−8 −28.6%	9−10 +28.6%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −33.3%	24−27 +33.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 −20%	12−14 +20%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 −28.6%	45−50 +28.6%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 −28.6%	9−10 +28.6%
Battlefield 5	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 −20%	6−7 +20%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Far Cry 5	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 −20%	6−7 +20%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −25%	10−11 +25%
Hitman 3	7−8 −28.6%	9−10 +28.6%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −33.3%	24−27 +33.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 −20%	12−14 +20%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14 −33.3%	16−18 +33.3%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 −28.6%	45−50 +28.6%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	7−8 −28.6%	9−10 +28.6%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 −20%	6−7 +20%
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5 −25%	5−6 +25%
Far Cry 5	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −25%	10−11 +25%
Hitman 3	7−8 −28.6%	9−10 +28.6%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −33.3%	24−27 +33.3%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 −20%	12−14 +20%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14 −33.3%	16−18 +33.3%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 −28.6%	45−50 +28.6%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

−25%

5−6
+25%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4 −33.3%	4−5 +33.3%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Far Cry 5	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Hitman 3	7−8 −28.6%	9−10 +28.6%
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7 −33.3%	8−9 +33.3%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12 −27.3%	14−16 +27.3%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

5−6

−20%

6−7
+20%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

1−2

+0%

1−2
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +0%	2−3 +0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4

−33.3%

4−5
+33.3%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5850 and R5 430 OEM compete in popular games:

R5 430 OEM is 26% faster in 900p
R5 430 OEM is 30% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.91	2.67
Recency	7 January 2010	30 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	50 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5850 has 66.7% lower power consumption.

R5 430 OEM, on the other hand, has a 39.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon R5 430 OEM 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 card while Radeon R5 430 OEM is a desktop one.

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