AMD ATI Radeon HD 5850

VLIW5 (Cypress Pro)
Architecture
High-end
Product Tier
1440
Shader Cores
32
ROPs
72
TMUs
No RT
Ray Tracing
1 GB
Memory
GDDR5
Memory Type
128 GB/s
Bandwidth
151 W
TDP
GPU Snapshot
Release date:Sep 30, 2009Price at Launch:$299
Type:DesktopArchitecture:VLIW5 (Cypress Pro)
Generation:Radeon HD 5000 seriesProduct Tier:High-end
VRAM Capacity:1 GBTotal Board Power:151 W
Core Configuration
Shader Cores:1440TMUs:72
ROPs:32L2 Cache:512 KB
Memory
VRAM Capacity:1 GBMemory Type:GDDR5
Memory Speed:4 GbpsMemory Bus:256-bit
Bandwidth:128 GB/s
Graphics Processing
Base Clock:0.725 GHzFP32 Throughput:2.09 TFLOPs
Ray Tracing:NoProcess Size:40nm
Process Name:TSMC 40nmDie Size:334 mm²
Power & Connectivity
Total Board Power:151 WPower Connectors:2x 6-pin
Bus Interface:PCIe 2.0 x16HDMI Support:HDMI 1.3
DisplayPort Support:DP 1.1DSC:No
Max Displays:3
Media & Software Support
DirectX Support:11.2Shader Model:5.0
OpenGL Version:4.4

Reviews and Ratings

83

Average Score

Based on 8 reviews

Reviewers Liked

  • Modern graphics card with the latest technologies

Reviewers Didn't Like

  • It's the middleman of the 5800 series
90

Lesson one for the trainee PC performance enthusiast. Whether it's CPUs or GPUs, always go for a cut-down version of a flagship chip if you want to maximise your bang-for-buck ratio.Enter, therefore, AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics chipset....

By TechRadar on
63

Nice and modern for those that don't want to go to the...

By TopTenREVIEWS on
80

The card at a glance For our tests, HIS sent us their Radeon HD 5850 H585F1GDG. It's not really an original card, since it uses ATI’s stock design. It's the same size and has the same cooler and clocks as a standard Radeon HD 5850. But...

By DigitalVersus on
90

Widely overlooked and quite often unavailable in retail at launch, the less powerful Radeon 5800 series card, the HD 5850 showed us today that it is no pushover. Despite sporting fewer stream processors and markedly lower clock speeds than the HD...

By HardwareZone.com on
83

Blistering pace that tops the best of the last generation – and at a palatable price, too...

By PC Pro on
86

Final thoughts We surmised on the Radeon HD 5870 card's credentials in last week's review, and much of that in-depth analysis is pertinent to the DX11-compliant Radeon HD 5850 1,024MB card.The two high-end boards are seemingly analogous to the...

By HEXUS.net on

Putting together these value comparisons is harder than it looks. Oh, sure, looking at our overall value graphs and making broad generalizations is a lot of fun, but it can be quite misleading. You've gotta keep the hidden variables in mind. If this...

By The Tech Report on

So what conclusion can be drawn from todays testing?Firstly I'm sure a lot of you have come into todays review with a preconceived notion of exactly what card you'd like. In previous times the general consensus was to purchase the highest priced...

By Overclock3D on

Two HD 5850s are definitely better than a single card in almost every game. To take advantage of two cards of this magnitude you almost have to turn up FSAA to 8x and AF to 16x as performance with 4x FSAA is nearly CPU limited on a Core i7 920....

By Motherboards.org on

Summing up today’s test session, we have to admit that the Radeon HD 5850 is going to be the only real opponent to the Radeon HD 5870 until the arrival of the next generation of graphics cards from Nvidia. In fact, it is such a dangerous opponent that...

By X-bit Labs on

With the Radeon HD 5800s, AMD has opened the ball for the DirectX 11 generation of graphics cards, or rather Direct3D 11. On the menu, Cypress, a new GPU that offers full support for the new API, is engraved at 40 nanometres and...

By BeHardware on

For $259 the ATI Radeon HD 5850 smacks the competition then laughs. AMD has engineered this series smartly, doing what worked for it with the Radeon HD 4800 series. The Radeon HD 5850 uses the same GPU as the Radeon HD 5870 with some streaming...

By HardOCP on