FirePro W8100 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing FirePro W8100 and Mobility Radeon HD 5850. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between FirePro W8100 and Mobility Radeon HD 5850. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Mobility Radeon HD 5850 here:

Main Specs

  FirePro W8100 Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 220 Watt 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI No outputs
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  • FirePro W8100 has 633% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • FirePro W8100 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • FirePro W8100 has 7 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • FirePro W8100 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - in Laptops.
  • FirePro W8100 is build with GCN 2.0 architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of FirePro W8100 is 199 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • FirePro W8100 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro W8100 is 3000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 5−6
ultra / 1080p 21−24 3−4
QHD / 1440p 16−18 0−1
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 14−16
medium / 1080p 40−45 7−8
The average gaming FPS of FirePro W8100 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 485% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  FirePro W8100 Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Architecture GCN 2.0 Terascale 2
Code name Hawaii Broadway-PRO
Type Workstation Laptop
Release date 23 June 2014 7 January 2010
Pipelines 2560 800
Core clock speed 824 MHz 625 MHz
Transistor count 6,200 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 131.8 20.00
Floating-point performance 4,219 gflops 800.0 gflops
Length 279 mm
Memory bus width 512 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 6.3 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131 N/A
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 466 Mh/s
Laptop size large
Form factor full height / full length
StereoOutput3D +
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support +
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