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Radeon HD 5850 1024MB Review

Radeon HD 5850 1024MB is a High-End GPU part of the Radeon HD 5000 Series released on 2009. Codenamed Cypress Pro, this Evergreen 40nm GPU features 1440 Shader Processing Units, 72 TMUs and 32 ROPs. HD 5850 1024MB features a 256-bit Memory interface of fast GDDR5 Memory type, clocked at 725MHz on the central unit and running a Memory clock of 1000MHz. Performance is around or even better than the 2013 Radeon HD 7790, and is suitable for a 1080p resolution, but some Modern Demanding games like Crysis 3 will need lowered Aliasing settings to be playable. Its power consumption is considerably higher than other GPUs comparable performance-wise.
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Radeon HD 5850 1024MB Performance Specification

Core Speed

Architecture

Memory

Memory Speed

Memory Bus

Memory Type

Memory Bandwidth

Technology

TMUs

Texture Rate

ROPs

Pixel Rate

Shader
Processing Units

Direct X

Shader

Open GL

Resolution (WxH)

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GPU Details

725 MHz

Evergreen Cypress PRO

1024 MB

1000 MHz

256 Bit

GDDR5

128GB/sec

40nm

52.2 GTexel/s

23.2 GPixel/s

1440

DX 11

5.0

3.2

2560x1600

151 Watts

500 Watt & 40 Amps

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HDMI Connection

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No the Radeon HD 5850 1024MB graphics card is NOT a laptop and notebook GPU

Yes the Radeon HD 5850 1024MB graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Yes the Radeon HD 5850 1024MB graphics card is a dedicated GPU

No the Radeon HD 5850 1024MB graphics card is NOT an integrated GPU

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Georgie

21:35 May-11-2013

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This or my card??

emilsz

22:03 May-11-2013

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this one. 5850 performs a bit better and seems to be more power efficient.

TOTTALOTTA

05:29 Mar-12-2013

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I can get one of these for 113 NZD worth it?

XxSoultheKeeperXx

08:08 Mar-23-2013

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Not a bad deal, but if you can find a 7770 for a similar price i would grab that due to the near identical performance and half the power draw :)

nicovdmer

11:14 Feb-15-2013

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Wow my gpu is only 8% superior..

Duskerin

11:22 Jan-11-2013

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wow.. my thing beat it by 5 % ! while Tom's Graphic Hierarchy put mine 1 tier below. is it fair, GD? considering Cypress use of 256 bit bandwidth while Cape Verde just make 128 bit mem. i would say this will prevail in older games in DX 9 and DX 10, when mine good at DX 11 with tesselate chores. anyhow ,viva Vapor-X! :D

debat0r

13:42 Feb-15-2013

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I think that this one should be better actually

executer

10:02 Dec-22-2012

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How is this thing better than my GPU???

shahzaibshaban

22:00 Dec-28-2012

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Benchmarks may be ;)

Duskerin

11:26 Jan-11-2013

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it uses 1440 stream processor, mate ;) even 6850 inferior in the real world

redosave

15:37 Sep-29-2012

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this graphic card can play
NFS Shift 2 Unleashed , CoD Black Ops and Battlefield 3 at ULTRA settings with max AA and Vsync ?
(I think is a stupid question but one of my friend asks me this) and I said yes xD , what do guys think?

CheeseIt

12:50 Oct-19-2012

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