Product comparison · 2 gpus

MSI Radeon HD 5850 vs MSI Radeon HD 5870

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Comparison of Radeon HD 5850, Radeon HD 5870
18 specifications	A MSI Radeon HD 5850 View product	B MSI Radeon HD 5870 View product
Processor2 differ
Maximum resolution	2560 x 1600 pixels	2560 x 1600 pixels
Processor frequencyDiffers	725 MHz	850 MHz
Graphics card RAMDAC	400 MHz	400 MHz
Stream processorsDiffers	1440	1600
Memory1 differ
Discrete graphics card memory	1 GB	1 GB
Graphics card memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory bus	256 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speedDiffers	4000 MHz	4800 MHz
Ports & interfacesidentical
Interface type	PCI Express 2.0	PCI Express 2.0
HDMI ports quantity	1	1
DVI-I ports quantity	2	2
HDMI version	1.3	1.3
Performanceidentical
DirectX version	11	11
OpenGL version	3.2	3.2
HDCP	Yes	Yes
Designidentical
Cooling type	Active	Active
Other featuresidentical
Mac compatibility	No	No
HDMI	Yes	Yes

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