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    Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon HD 8730M

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 8730M, 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5850 stacks up against Radeon HD 8730M, check out specs charts below.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 8730M are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 8730M 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5850 or Radeon HD 8730M here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Laptops
    Radeon HD 8730M Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 8730M
    Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 DDR3
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon HD 8730M uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
    • Radeon HD 8730M has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 8730M - with GCN.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 8730M is 25 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 8730M - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 8730M is 2000 MHz.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 5−6 0−1
    ultra / 1080p 3−4 −
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
    low / 720p 14−16 1−2
    medium / 1080p 7−8 0−1
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1400% more, than Radeon HD 8730M.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 8730M
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
    Code name Broadway-PRO Mars
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 January 2010 16 November 2012
    Pipelines 800 384
    Core clock speed 625 MHz 650 MHz
    Boost Clock 700 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million 950 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.00 16.80
    Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 537.6 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 2000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 32 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
    Shader Model 5.0 5.1
    OpenGL 4.4 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2 1.2
    Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
    Laptop size large medium sized
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