Radeon HD 5850 vs Tesla C2050

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 5850 and Tesla C2050, 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 Radeon HD 5850 stacks up against Tesla C2050, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 5850 Tesla C2050
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 238 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 3 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI
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  • Tesla C2050 has 57% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Tesla C2050 has 2 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Tesla C2050 - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5850 is 151 MHz higher, than Tesla C2050.
  • Radeon HD 5850 and Tesla C2050 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Tesla C2050 is 7 mm longer, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla C2050 is 1000 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 9−10 18−20
ultra / 1080p 5−6 10−11
QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 21−24 35−40
medium / 1080p 12−14 21−24
The average gaming FPS of Tesla C2050 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 83% more, than Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 5850 Tesla C2050
Architecture Terascale 2 Fermi
Code name Cypress GF100
Type Desktop Workstation
Release date 30 September 2009 25 July 2011
Pipelines 1440 448
Core clock speed 725 MHz 574 MHz
Transistor count 2,154 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 52.20 32.14
Floating-point performance 2,088.0 gflops 1,030.4 gflops
Length 241 mm 248 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 3000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB/s 144.0 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 90 Mh/s
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