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    Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon RX 560

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon RX 560, 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 RX 560, check out specs charts below.
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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 RX 560
    Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 75 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
    Supplementary power connectors None
    Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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    • Radeon RX 560 has 150% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon RX 560 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
    • Radeon RX 560 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is used in Laptops, and Radeon RX 560 - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon RX 560 - with GCN 4.0.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon RX 560 is 550 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon RX 560 - by 14 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon RX 560 is 5000 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 5−6 18−20
    ultra / 1080p 3−4 10−12
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 5−6
    4K / 2160p − 4−5
    low / 720p 14−16 35−40
    medium / 1080p 7−8 21−24
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon RX 560 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 214% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon RX 560
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN 4.0
    Code name Broadway-PRO Polaris 21
    Type Laptop Desktop
    Release date 7 January 2010 18 April 2017
    Pipelines 800 1024
    Core clock speed 625 MHz 1175 MHz
    Boost Clock 1275 MHz
    Transistor count 1,040 million 3,000 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.00 81.60
    Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 2,611 gflops
    Length 170 mm
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 7000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 112.0 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
    Laptop size large
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