AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M 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 HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M +24%

0.992 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

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Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

Solar System

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

10

-

640

Shading Units

800

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.00 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

30W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Broadway

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

Broadway PRO (216-0769024)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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