Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Quadro 5000M

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Quadro 5000M, 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 Quadro 5000M, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Quadro 5000M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Quadro 5000M 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 Quadro 5000M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Quadro 5000M
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 100 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Quadro 5000M has 233% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Quadro 5000M uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • Quadro 5000M has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is used in Laptops, and Quadro 5000M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro 5000M - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 220 MHz higher, than Quadro 5000M.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Quadro 5000M are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 800 MHz higher, than Quadro 5000M.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 5−6 10−11
ultra / 1080p 3−4 6−7
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 21−24
medium / 1080p 7−8 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Quadro 5000M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 85% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Quadro 5000M
Architecture Terascale 2 Fermi
Code name Broadway-PRO Fermi
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 27 July 2010
Pipelines 800 320
Core clock speed 625 MHz 405 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 16.20
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 518.4 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA +
Laptop size large large
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