Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon R5 M435

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon R5 M435, 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 HD 5850 stacks up against Radeon R5 M435, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 5850 Radeon R5 M435
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 5850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R5 M435 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
  • Radeon R5 M435 has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R5 M435 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon R5 M435 is 55 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R5 M435 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon R5 M435 is 2500 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 0−1
ultra / 1080p 5−6 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 10−12
medium / 1080p 12−14 2−3
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 5850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 183% more, than Radeon R5 M435.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 5850 Radeon R5 M435
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.0
Code name Cypress Jet
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 30 September 2009 15 May 2016
Pipelines 1440 320
Core clock speed 725 MHz 780 MHz
Boost Clock 1030 MHz
Transistor count 2,154 million 690 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 52.20 20.60
Floating-point performance 2,088.0 gflops 547.2 gflops
Length 241 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 36 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
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