GeForce GTS 450 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTS 450 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 GTS 450 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 GTS 450 Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI No outputs
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  • GeForce GTS 450 has 253% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • GeForce GTS 450 and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • GeForce GTS 450 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTS 450 is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTS 450 is 941 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce GTS 450 and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 196 MHz higher, than GeForce GTS 450.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 3−4 5−6
ultra / 1080p 1−2 3−4
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 14−16
medium / 1080p 5−6 7−8
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 16% more, than GeForce GTS 450.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTS 450 Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name GF106 Broadway-PRO
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 13 September 2010 7 January 2010
Pipelines 192 800
Core clock speed 1566 MHz 625 MHz
Transistor count 1,170 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 25.1 billion/sec 20.00
Floating-point performance 601.3 gflops 800.0 gflops
Length 8.25" (210 mm) (21 cm)
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1804 (3608 data rate) MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 57.7 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.2 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores 192
Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options +
HDMI +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI Internal
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 40 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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