Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon HD 5830

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5830. 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 HD 5830. 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.

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 Radeon HD 5830
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 175 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 5830 has 483% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5830 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 5830 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 5830 - with TeraScale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5830 is 175 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5830 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 5830 is 2000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 5−6 8−9
ultra / 1080p 3−4 5−6
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 18−20
medium / 1080p 7−8 10−11
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 5830 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 42% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 5830
Architecture Terascale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Broadway-PRO Cypress
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 25 February 2010
Pipelines 800 1120
Core clock speed 625 MHz 800 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 44.80
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 1,792.0 gflops
Length 282 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.0
OpenGL 4.4 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
Laptop size large
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