GeForce 945A vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce 945A and Mobility Radeon HD 5850, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the GeForce 945A stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5850, check out specs charts below.

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

  GeForce 945A Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 33 Watt 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce 945A has 10% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce 945A is connected by PCIe 3.0 x8, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce 945A and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • GeForce 945A is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - in Laptops.
  • GeForce 945A is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce 945A is 447 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce 945A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce 945A is 3012 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 5−6
ultra / 1080p 5−6 3−4
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 20−22 14−16
medium / 1080p 10−12 7−8
The average gaming FPS of GeForce 945A in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 57% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  GeForce 945A Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
Code name GM108 Broadway-PRO
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 13 March 2015 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 800
Core clock speed 1072 MHz 625 MHz
Boost Clock 1189 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 28.54 20.00
Floating-point performance 903.2 gflops 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 40.1 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA 5.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 108 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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