AMD Radeon E8870 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

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AMD Radeon E8870 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +92%

1.536 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

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Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2010

Embedded

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

10

768

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Broadway

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

Broadway PRO (216-0769024)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

30W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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