Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon RX 460 mobile

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon RX 460 mobile, 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 RX 460 mobile, check out specs charts below.

Radeon RX 460 mobile is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon RX 460 mobile 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 Radeon RX 460 mobile here:

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 5850 Radeon RX 460 mobile
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 55 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 5850 has 174% more power consumption, than Radeon RX 460 mobile.
  • Radeon HD 5850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon RX 460 mobile uses MXM-B (3.0) interface.
  • Radeon RX 460 mobile has 3 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Radeon HD 5850 is used in Desktops, and Radeon RX 460 mobile - in Laptops.
  • Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon RX 460 mobile - with Polaris.
  • Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon RX 460 mobile - by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon RX 460 mobile is 4000 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 16−18
ultra / 1080p 5−6 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 3−4
low / 720p 21−24 30−35
medium / 1080p 12−14 21−24
The average gaming FPS of Radeon RX 460 mobile in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 66% more, than Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 5850 Radeon RX 460 mobile
Architecture Terascale 2 Polaris
Code name Cypress Polaris 11 / Baffin XT
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 30 September 2009 8 August 2016
Pipelines 1440 896
Core clock speed 725 MHz
Boost Clock 1180 MHz
Transistor count 2,154 million 3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 52.20 66.08
Floating-point performance 2,088.0 gflops 2,115 gflops
Length 241 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 80 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 5.0 6.4
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
FreeSync +
Laptop size large
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