Mobility Radeon HD 5830 vs Radeon HD 6850M

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 6850M, 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5830 stacks up against Radeon HD 6850M, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 6850M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 6850M are only used in laptop graphics. They have 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 5830 or Radeon HD 6850M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 6850M
Power consumption (TDP) 24 Watt 50 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3 DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 6850M has 108% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 6850M have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 6850M are build with Terascale 2 architecture.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6850M is 75 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5830.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 6850M are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and Radeon HD 6850M is 800 MHz.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 2−3
ultra / 1080p 2−3 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 16−18 12−14
medium / 1080p 6−7 3−4
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5830 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 50% more, than Radeon HD 6850M.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 6850M
Architecture Terascale 2 Terascale 2
Code name Broadway Granville Pro/LP
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 7 January 2010 6 January 2011
Pipelines 800 800
Core clock speed 500 MHz 575 / 675 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 27.00
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 1,080.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s 25.6 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 large
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