Quadro FX 4800 vs Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro FX 4800 and 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 Quadro FX 4800 stacks up against Radeon HD 5850, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro FX 4800 Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 151 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 1 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 5850 has 0% more power consumption, than Quadro FX 4800.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro FX 4800 has 1535 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro FX 4800 is build with Tesla 2.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5850 is 123 MHz higher, than Quadro FX 4800.
  • Quadro FX 4800 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 5850 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Quadro FX 4800 is 26 mm longer, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 5850 is 400 MHz higher, than Quadro FX 4800.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 9−10
ultra / 1080p 0−1 5−6
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 12−14 21−24
medium / 1080p 3−4 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 5850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 150% more, than Quadro FX 4800.

Full Specs

  Quadro FX 4800 Radeon HD 5850
Architecture Tesla 2.0 Terascale 2
Code name GT200B Cypress
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 11 November 2008 30 September 2009
Pipelines 192 1440
Core clock speed 602 MHz 725 MHz
Transistor count 1,400 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 38.53 52.20
Floating-point performance 462.3 gflops 2,088.0 gflops
Length 267 mm 241 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 76.8 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 4.0 5.0
OpenGL 3.3 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 1.3
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