ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 Graphics Cards

Overview

Expand. Accelerate. Dominate.

Get visual quality and intense gaming performance with support for Microsoft®

Prepare to experience a riveting high-definition gaming experience with ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 graphics processor.

With ATI Eyefinity technology get the ultimate immersive gaming experience¹
Loaded with advanced technology, these GPUs have the power and premium.¹

Support

Specifications

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 support¹⁵
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^2,4
- 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
ATI Stream acceleration technology
- OpenCL support¹⁴
- DirectCompute 11
- Double precision floating point processing support
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^3,5
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
- Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
- Dual-channel bridge interconnect
ATI Avivo™ HD Video & Display technology⁷
- UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
- Advanced post-processing and scaling⁸
- 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^9,10
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹¹
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹²
- Integrated DisplayPort output
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹²
- HDMI® (With 3D, Deep Color and x.v.Color™)
  - Max resolution: 1920x1200¹²
- Integrated VGA output
  - Max resolution: 2048x1536¹²
- 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹³
- 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 technology⁷
- 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

System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard.
500 Watt or greater power supply with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode).
Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/listing.aspx for a list of Certified products.
Minimum 1GB of system memory.
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive.
DVD playback requires DVD drive.
Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive.
For an ATI CrossFireX™ system, a second ATI Radeon™ HD 5850 graphics card, an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per graphics card (included) are required.

Support

Automatically detect and install the right driver

Footnotes

HD capable monitor required.
Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is required to support ATI Eyefinity technology and to enable a third display you require one panel with a DisplayPort connector.
Requires application support for ATI Stream technology.
ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays.
Digital rights management restrictions may apply.
ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.
ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution.
Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required.
Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams.
Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
Some custom resolutions require user configuration.
Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display.
OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010.
Driver support scheduled for release in 2010.

ATI Radeon™ HD graphics chips have numerous features integrated into the processor itself (e.g., HDCP, HDMI, etc.). Third parties manufacturing products based on, or incorporating ATI Radeon HD graphics chips, may choose to enable some or all of these features. If a particular feature is important to you, please inquire of the manufacturer if a particular product supports this feature. In addition, some features or technologies may require you to purchase additional components in order to make full use of them (e.g. a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive, HDCP-ready monitor, etc.).