GeForce GTX 950A vs Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 950A and 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 GTX 950A stacks up against Radeon HD 5850, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 950A Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 151 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 5850 has 101% more power consumption, than GeForce GTX 950A.
  • GeForce GTX 950A is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon HD 5850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce GTX 950A has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • GeForce GTX 950A is build with Maxwell architecture, and Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 950A is 268 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce GTX 950A is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 5850 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 950A is 2 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 12−14 9−10
ultra / 1080p 7−8 5−6
QHD / 1440p 2−3 0−1
low / 720p 24−27 21−24
medium / 1080p 14−16 12−14
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 950A in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 25% more, than Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 950A Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
Code name GM107 Cypress
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 13 March 2015 30 September 2009
Pipelines 640 1440
Core clock speed 993 MHz 725 MHz
Boost Clock 1124 MHz
Transistor count 1,870 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 44.96 52.20
Floating-point performance 1,271 gflops 2,088.0 gflops
Length 241 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2002 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 32.03 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
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
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