AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6850M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850M +7%

1.08 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

1.005 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

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Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

Vancouver

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

10

800

Shading Units

800

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.05 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.12 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1005 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Broadway

Granville PRO

GPU Variant

Broadway PRO (216-0769024)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

30W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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