GeForce GTX 590 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GeForce GTX 590 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 GeForce GTX 590 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

  GeForce GTX 590 Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 365 Watt 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors Two 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) 1 GB
Display Connectors 3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 590 has 1116% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • GeForce GTX 590 has 3071 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce GTX 590 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 590 is build with Fermi architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 590 is 590 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce GTX 590 and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 293 MHz higher, than GeForce GTX 590.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 5−6
ultra / 1080p 10−11 3−4
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
low / 720p 35−40 14−16
medium / 1080p 21−24 7−8
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 590 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 200% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 590 Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name GF110 Broadway-PRO
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 24 March 2011 7 January 2010
Pipelines 1024 800
Core clock speed 1215 MHz 625 MHz
Transistor count 3,000 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 77.7 billion/sec 20.00
Floating-point performance 2x 1,244.2 gflops 800.0 gflops
Length 11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm)
Memory bus width 768-bit (384-bit per GPU) 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1707 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 327.7 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 1024
Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options +
Multi monitor support +
HDMI +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI Internal
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 107 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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