GeForce GTX 960M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 960M 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 GTX 960M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5850, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTX 960M and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTX 960M and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 are only used in laptop graphics. They have 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 GeForce GTX 960M or Mobility Radeon HD 5850 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 960M Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 30 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 960M has 150% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce GTX 960M is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce GTX 960M has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 960M is build with Maxwell architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 960M is 471 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce GTX 960M is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 960M is 500 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 18−20 5−6
ultra / 1080p 10−11 3−4
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 35−40 14−16
medium / 1080p 21−24 7−8
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 960M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 214% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 960M Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Maxwell Terascale 2
Code name N16P-GX Broadway-PRO
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 12 March 2015 7 January 2010
Pipelines 640 800
Core clock speed 1096 MHz 625 MHz
Boost Clock 1202 MHz
Transistor count 1,870 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 47.04 20.00
Floating-point performance 1,505 gflops 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 80 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores 640
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
SLI options +
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 175 Mh/s
Laptop size medium sized large
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support +
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder +
Optimus +
GameStream +
GeForce ShadowPlay +
GPU Boost 2.0
GameWorks +
BatteryBoost +
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