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    Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon R9 380X

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon R9 380X. 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 380X. 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 380X
    Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 190 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
    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 380X has 533% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R9 380X uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
    • Radeon R9 380X has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is used in Laptops, and Radeon R9 380X - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R9 380X - with GCN 3.0.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 380X - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 1030 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 380X.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 5−6 35−40
    ultra / 1080p 3−4 21−24
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
    4K / 2160p − 10−11
    low / 720p 14−16 60−65
    medium / 1080p 7−8 40−45
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 380X in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 485% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon R9 380X
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 3.0
    Code name Broadway-PRO Antigua
    Type Laptop Desktop
    Release date 7 January 2010 19 November 2015
    Pipelines 800 2048
    Core clock speed 625 MHz
    Boost Clock 970 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million 5,000 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.00 124.2
    Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 3,973 gflops
    Length 221 mm
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 970 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 182.4 GB/s
    Shared memory -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
    Shader Model 5.0 6.3
    OpenGL 4.4 4.5
    OpenCL 1.2 2.0
    Vulkan N/A +
    Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.58 kh/s
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    HDMI +
    Laptop size large
    Eyefinity +
    HD3D +
    PowerTune +
    TrueAudio +
    ZeroCore +
    Mantle +
    Design reference
    Bridgeless CrossFire +
    Number of Eyefinity displays 6
    DisplayPort support +
    CrossFire +
    VCE +
    DDMA audio +
    Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.89 Gh/s
    Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 20.63 Mh/s
    Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 175 Sol/s
    Compute units 32
    Form factor full height / full length
    High bandwidth memory (HBM) -
    LiquidVR +
    FRTC +
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