10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition is capable of DirectX 11 gaming requirements.

How many years will the Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition in your PC? You should definitely consider replacing this Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition graphics card, if it is still in your gaming PC.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition? If you want an upgrade suggestion for the Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition then a good choice would be RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB as this is better than 716 of the top 1000 most demanding game requirements with 242% better performance as well. Alternatively a good upgrade choice for this graphics card today would be the RX 5000 Series Radeon RX 5300. For comparison of the 1000 most demanding games around today this suggested upgrade is 174% better and can meet 300 of their recommended requirements.

FPS System Benchmark

Game

Red Dead Redemption 2

The Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition was released on 01 Sep 2010

AMD PC game performance check Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition

GPU

Architecture

Terascale 2 Cypress PRO

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

52 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

23 GPixel/s

Shader Processing Units

Ray Tracing

Tensor Cores

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 11

Shader

5.0

Open GL

3.2

Resolution (WxH)

2560 x 1600

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

1024MB

Memory Speed

1000MHz

Memory Bus

256bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

128GB/sec

L2 Cache

512

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

725 MHz

Power

Max Power

None

PSU

500 Watt

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i7-860 Quad 2.80GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

1920 x 1080

GPU Upgrade

GD Official

GD RATING

Approved

Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition Game Requirement Analysis

Radeon HD 5850 PowerColor 1GB Edition is a special edition of the powerful Radeon HD 5850.
There's no overclocking out of the box and so its performance is on level with the reference card.

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