GeForce MX250 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce MX250 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 MX250 stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 5850, check out specs charts below.

GeForce MX250 and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce MX250 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 MX250 or Mobility Radeon HD 5850 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce MX250 Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x4 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 has 200% more power consumption, than GeForce MX250.
  • GeForce MX250 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x4, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce MX250 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce MX250 is build with Pascal architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce MX250 is 893 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GeForce MX250 is manufactured by 14 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce MX250 is 5000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 12−14 5−6
ultra / 1080p 7−8 3−4
QHD / 1440p 2−3 0−1
low / 720p 27−30 14−16
medium / 1080p 16−18 7−8
The average gaming FPS of GeForce MX250 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 128% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  GeForce MX250 Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Pascal Terascale 2
Code name N17S-G2 Broadway-PRO
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 20 February 2019 7 January 2010
Pipelines 384 800
Core clock speed 1518 MHz 625 MHz
Boost Clock 1582 MHz
Transistor count 1,800 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 24.91 20.00
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 48.06 GB/s 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 (12_1) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 6.4 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
CUDA 6.1
Laptop size large large
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