Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Quadro K1200

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Quadro K1200, 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 K1200, check out specs charts below.

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

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Quadro K1200
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 45 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 4x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Quadro K1200 has 50% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro K1200 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is used in Laptops, and Quadro K1200 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Quadro K1200 - with Maxwell.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro K1200 is 433 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Quadro K1200 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro K1200 is 3000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 5−6 14−16
ultra / 1080p 3−4 8−9
QHD / 1440p 0−1 3−4
low / 720p 14−16 30−35
medium / 1080p 7−8 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Quadro K1200 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 157% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Quadro K1200
Architecture Terascale 2 Maxwell
Code name Broadway-PRO GM107
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 7 January 2010 28 January 2015
Pipelines 800 512
Core clock speed 625 MHz 1058 MHz
Boost Clock 1124 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 35.97
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 1,151 gflops
Length 160 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12
Shader Model 5.0 5
OpenGL 4.4 4.5
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A +
CUDA 5.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 132 Mh/s
Laptop size large
3D Vision Pro +
Mosaic +
Width 1" (2.5 cm)
Number of simultaneous displays 4
nView Desktop Management +
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