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    Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon RX 550 mobile

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon RX 550 mobile. 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon RX 550 mobile. 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.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon RX 550 mobile are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon RX 550 mobile 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 RX 550 mobile here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Laptops
    Radeon RX 550 mobile Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon RX 550 mobile
    Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 50 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Radeon RX 550 mobile has 66% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon RX 550 mobile uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
    • Radeon RX 550 mobile has 3 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 RX 550 mobile - with Polaris.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon RX 550 mobile is 662 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon RX 550 mobile - by 14 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon RX 550 mobile is 4000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 5−6 18−20
    ultra / 1080p 3−4 10−12
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 5−6
    4K / 2160p − 4−5
    low / 720p 14−16 35−40
    medium / 1080p 7−8 24−27
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon RX 550 mobile in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 228% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon RX 550 mobile
    Architecture Terascale 2 Polaris
    Code name Broadway-PRO Polaris 12
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 7 January 2010 21 March 2017
    Pipelines 800 640
    Core clock speed 625 MHz 1287 MHz
    Boost Clock 1476 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million 2,200 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.00 51.48
    Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 1,647 gflops
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 6000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 96 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
    Shader Model 5.0 6.4
    OpenGL 4.4 4.6
    OpenCL 1.2 2.0
    Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
    FreeSync +
    Laptop size large large
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