Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon R9 290X

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon R9 290X. 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon R9 290X. 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.
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Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5850 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 Mobility Radeon HD 5850 here:

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Laptops

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon R9 290X
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 250 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon R9 290X has 733% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R9 290X uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon R9 290X has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is used in Laptops, and Radeon R9 290X - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R9 290X - with GCN.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 290X - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 750 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 290X.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 5−6 35−40
ultra / 1080p 3−4 24−27
QHD / 1440p 0−1 18−20
4K / 2160p − 10−11
low / 720p 14−16 60−65
medium / 1080p 7−8 45−50
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 290X in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 514% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon R9 290X
Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
Code name Broadway-PRO Hawaii XT
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 24 October 2013
Pipelines 800 2816
Core clock speed 625 MHz
Boost Clock 947 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 6,200 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 176.0
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 5,632 gflops
Length 275 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 320 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 6.3
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan N/A +
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.76 kh/s
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 3.0
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 623 Mh/s
Laptop size large
Eyefinity +
HD3D +
TrueAudio +
Design reference
DisplayPort support +
CrossFire +
DDMA audio +
Decred / DCR (Decred) 1.07 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 25.75 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 350 Sol/s
AppAcceleration +
LiquidVR +
TressFX +
UVD +
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