ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs AMD Radeon E8950
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2009
Sep 2015
Generation
Evergreen
Embedded
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
735 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
18
32
Shading Units
1440
2048
TMUs
72
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
256.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
Amethyst
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
E8950
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
5 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
366 mm²
Board Design
TDP
151W
95W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.