Feature Summary
Here is a summary of features of the Radeon HD 5850 from AMD’s site:
- 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
- TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 1440 Stream Processing Units
- 72 Texture Units
- 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 32 Color ROP Units
- GDDR5 interface with 128.0 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
- PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
- DirectX® 11 support
- Shader Model 5.0
- DirectCompute 11
- Programmable hardware tessellation unitAccelerated multi-threading
- HDR texture compression
- Order-independent transparency
- OpenGL 3.2 support
- Image quality enhancement technology
- Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
- 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
- ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology
- Three independent display controllers
- Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
- Display grouping
- Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
- Three independent display controllers
- ATI Stream acceleration technology
- OpenCL 1.0 compliant
- DirectCompute 11
- Double precision floating point processing support
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology
- Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
- Dual-channel bridge interconnect
- ATI Avivo™ HD Video & Display technology
- UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
- Advanced post-processing and scaling
- Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
- Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
- Independent video gamma control
- Dynamic video range control
- Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP
- Max resolution: 2560×1600
- Integrated DisplayPort output
- Max resolution: 2560×1600
- Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support and high bit-rate audio
- Max resolution: 1920×1200
- Integrated VGA output
- Max resolution: 2048×1536
- 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support
- Integrated HD audio controller
- Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
- Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
- ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
- Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
Speeds & Feeds
- Engine clock speed: 725 MHz
- Processing power (single precision): 2.09 TeraFLOPS
- Processing power (double precision): 418 GigaFLOPS
- Polygon throughput: 725M polygons/sec
- Data fetch rate (32-bit): 209 billion fetches/sec
- Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 52.2 Gigatexels/sec
- Pixel fill rate: 23.2 Gigapixels/sec
- Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 92.8 Gigasamples/sec
- Memory clock speed: 1 GHz
- Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
- Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec
- Maximum board power: 151 Watts
- Idle board power: 27 Watts
Nice review. ATI has been on the ball lately.
Nice review. ATI has been on the ball lately.
Great card but their Vapor X version takes the cakes and eats it too.
Great card but their Vapor X version takes the cakes and eats it too.
Yes, the vapor x is much better than the stock cooler, definately worth the extra $, and saves you the hassle of installing an aftermarket cooler
Yes, the vapor x is much better than the stock cooler, definately worth the extra $, and saves you the hassle of installing an aftermarket cooler
I believe it's “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.”, not “S.T.R.I.K.E.R.”…
I believe it's “S.T.A.L.K.E.R.”, not “S.T.R.I.K.E.R.”…
my friend… you´ve tested an ATI 5850 that runs great with Dx11 and GTX260 do not suport this version. Lets await for a newer version from nVidia´s board VGA that suport a greater frequency , a large bandwith and optimisations for DirecX 11. nVidia rocks !!!!
my friend… you´ve tested an ATI 5850 that runs great with Dx11 and GTX260 do not suport this version. Lets await for a newer version from nVidia´s board VGA that suport a greater frequency , a large bandwith and optimisations for DirecX 11. nVidia rocks !!!!
Regardless if the HD5850 is DX11 compatible and the GTX260 is not, the HD5850 is still alot faster.
gddr5 memory ftw! but nvidia is gonna have that soon as well.
Regardless if the HD5850 is DX11 compatible and the GTX260 is not, the HD5850 is still alot faster.
gddr5 memory ftw! but nvidia is gonna have that soon as well.
GDDR5 is only good in certain situations so its not always the best way to go.
GDDR5 is only good in certain situations so its not always the best way to go.
it's better more often than not.
Its depends if the pathway is wide enough to take advantage of the bandwidth.
it's better more often than not.
Its depends if the pathway is wide enough to take advantage of the bandwidth.
yea, great array of products they've released within the past month.
most computers built recently can handle it…
yea, great array of products they've released within the past month.
most computers built recently can handle it…
Nvidia better get on the ball and release it's Fermi cards soon.
Nvidia better get on the ball and release it's Fermi cards soon.
Nvidia better get on the ball and release it's Fermi cards soon.
nice.ideal video card for my new game.
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why nvidia rocks? coz ur a fanboy?? or coz its hot like the hell?? and the new dx11 nvidia cards consume alot more power??? oh yeah, its because nvidia have great pricez…
i meant nvidia new cards are hot like hell lol
is it compatable wiv a laptop?