Radeon E8860 vs Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon E8860 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 Radeon E8860 stacks up against Radeon HD 5850, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon E8860 Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 37 Watt 151 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 5850 has 308% more power consumption, than Radeon E8860.
  • Radeon E8860 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon HD 5850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon E8860 has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon E8860 is build with GCN 1.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5850 is 150 MHz higher, than Radeon E8860.
  • Radeon E8860 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 5850 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon E8860 is 2500 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 7−8 9−10
ultra / 1080p 4−5 5−6
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 18−20 21−24
medium / 1080p 9−10 12−14
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 5850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 20% more, than Radeon E8860.

Full Specs

  Radeon E8860 Radeon HD 5850
Architecture GCN 1.0 Terascale 2
Code name Venus Cypress
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 25 January 2014 30 September 2009
Pipelines 640 1440
Core clock speed 575 MHz 725 MHz
Boost Clock 625 MHz
Transistor count 1,500 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 25.00 52.20
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 2,088.0 gflops
Length 241 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_1) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131 N/A
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 48 Mh/s
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