Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics, 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 5850 stacks up against Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics 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 5850 or Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 DDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics is 95 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics - by 32 / 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 200 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 5−6 1−2
ultra / 1080p 3−4 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 12−14
medium / 1080p 7−8 3−4
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 50% more, than Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 8550G plus HD 8750M Dual Graphics
Architecture Terascale 2
Code name Broadway-PRO
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 7 January 2010 1 August 2013
Pipelines 800 640
Core clock speed 625 MHz 720 / 825 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 32 / 28 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
Shader Model 5.0
OpenGL 4.4
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan N/A
Laptop size large medium sized
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