Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon R9 A375

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon R9 A375. 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 Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon R9 A375. 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.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 5850 Radeon R9 A375
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
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
  Check Price
  • Radeon HD 5850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R9 A375 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon R9 A375 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 R9 A375 - with GCN 1.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon R9 A375 is 175 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 A375 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 5850 is 1996 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 A375.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 2−3
ultra / 1080p 5−6 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 21−24 12−14
medium / 1080p 12−14 4−5
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 5850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 140% more, than Radeon R9 A375.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 5850 Radeon R9 A375
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 1.0
Code name Cypress Venus
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 30 September 2009 no data
Pipelines 1440 640
Core clock speed 725 MHz 900 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Transistor count 2,154 million 1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 52.20 37.00
Floating-point performance 2,088.0 gflops
Length 241 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 4.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 72 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
  Check Price