GRID M6 8Q vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing GRID M6 8Q 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 GRID M6 8Q 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

  GRID M6 8Q Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GRID M6 8Q has 233% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GRID M6 8Q is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GRID M6 8Q has 7 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GRID M6 8Q is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - in Laptops.
  • GRID M6 8Q is build with Maxwell 2.0 architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of GRID M6 8Q is 97 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • GRID M6 8Q is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GRID M6 8Q is 3012 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 18−20 5−6
ultra / 1080p 10−11 3−4
QHD / 1440p 5−6 0−1
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 35−40 14−16
medium / 1080p 21−24 7−8
The average gaming FPS of GRID M6 8Q in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 214% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  GRID M6 8Q Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Terascale 2
Code name GM204 Broadway-PRO
Type Workstation Laptop
Release date 30 August 2015 7 January 2010
Pipelines 1536 800
Core clock speed 722 MHz 625 MHz
Transistor count 5,200 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 69.31 20.00
Floating-point performance 2,218 gflops 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160.4 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 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA 5.2
Laptop size large
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