ATI Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GTX 780 Ti and Radeon HD 4850, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

GTX 780 Ti
2013
3 GB GDDR5, 250 Watt
22.81
+823%

GTX 780 Ti outperforms ATI HD 4850 by a whopping 823% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking243832
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.850.24
Power efficiency6.701.65
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGK110BRV770
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date7 November 2013 (11 years ago)25 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 $199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

GTX 780 Ti has 2338% better value for money than ATI HD 4850.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2880800
Core clock speed875 MHz625 MHz
Boost clock speed928 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,080 million956 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate222.725.00
Floating-point processing power5.345 TFLOPS1 TFLOPS
ROPs4816
TMUs24040

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm246 mm
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)no data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 6-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount3 GB512 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed7.0 GB/s993 MHz
Memory bandwidth336 GB/s63.55 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsOne Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support4 displaysno data
HDMI+-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Blu Ray 3D+-
3D Gaming+-
3D Vision+-
3D Vision Live+-

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

GTX 780 Ti 22.81
+823%
ATI HD 4850 2.47

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GTX 780 Ti 9471
+823%
ATI HD 4850 1026

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GTX 780 Ti 38813
+333%
ATI HD 4850 8972

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

GTX 780 Ti 75688
+571%
ATI HD 4850 11272

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p250−260
+793%
28
−793%
Full HD96
+140%
40
−140%
1200p170−180
+795%
19
−795%

Cost per frame, $

1080p7.28
−46.4%
4.98
+46.4%
  • ATI HD 4850 has 46% lower cost per frame in 1080p

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2 130−140
+2560%
5−6
−2560%
Cyberpunk 2077 50−55
+900%
5−6
−900%
Hogwarts Legacy 45−50
+683%
6−7
−683%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5 90−95
+1050%
8−9
−1050%
Counter-Strike 2 130−140
+2560%
5−6
−2560%
Cyberpunk 2077 50−55
+900%
5−6
−900%
Far Cry 5 75−80
+1167%
6−7
−1167%
Fortnite 110−120
+858%
12−14
−858%
Forza Horizon 4 90−95
+667%
12−14
−667%
Forza Horizon 5 70−75
+1725%
4−5
−1725%
Hogwarts Legacy 45−50
+683%
6−7
−683%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 90−95
+650%
12−14
−650%
Valorant 160−170
+274%
40−45
−274%

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5 90−95
+1050%
8−9
−1050%
Counter-Strike 2 130−140
+2560%
5−6
−2560%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 250−260
+425%
45−50
−425%
Cyberpunk 2077 50−55
+900%
5−6
−900%
Dota 2 120−130
+362%
24−27
−362%
Far Cry 5 75−80
+1167%
6−7
−1167%
Fortnite 110−120
+858%
12−14
−858%
Forza Horizon 4 90−95
+667%
12−14
−667%
Forza Horizon 5 70−75
+1725%
4−5
−1725%
Grand Theft Auto V 85−90
+1317%
6−7
−1317%
Hogwarts Legacy 45−50
+683%
6−7
−683%
Metro Exodus 50−55
+1175%
4−5
−1175%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 90−95
+650%
12−14
−650%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 65−70
+656%
9−10
−656%
Valorant 160−170
+274%
40−45
−274%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 90−95
+1050%
8−9
−1050%
Cyberpunk 2077 50−55
+900%
5−6
−900%
Dota 2 120−130
+362%
24−27
−362%
Far Cry 5 75−80
+1167%
6−7
−1167%
Forza Horizon 4 90−95
+667%
12−14
−667%
Hogwarts Legacy 45−50
+683%
6−7
−683%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 90−95
+650%
12−14
−650%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 65−70
+656%
9−10
−656%
Valorant 160−170
+274%
40−45
−274%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite 110−120
+858%
12−14
−858%

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 50−55
+2450%
2−3
−2450%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 160−170
+811%
18−20
−811%
Grand Theft Auto V 40−45
+4100%
1−2
−4100%
Metro Exodus 30−35 0−1
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
+872%
18−20
−872%
Valorant 200−210
+809%
21−24
−809%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 65−70
+829%
7−8
−829%
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
+1050%
2−3
−1050%
Far Cry 5 50−55
+643%
7−8
−643%
Forza Horizon 4 55−60
+883%
6−7
−883%
Hogwarts Legacy 24−27
+767%
3−4
−767%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 35−40
+825%
4−5
−825%

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 55−60
+1000%
5−6
−1000%

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 21−24
+1050%
2−3
−1050%
Grand Theft Auto V 40−45
+169%
16−18
−169%
Hogwarts Legacy 14−16
+1400%
1−2
−1400%
Metro Exodus 18−20
+850%
2−3
−850%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 30−35
+1033%
3−4
−1033%
Valorant 130−140
+1017%
12−14
−1017%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 35−40
+1067%
3−4
−1067%
Counter-Strike 2 21−24
+1050%
2−3
−1050%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
+900%
1−2
−900%
Dota 2 75−80
+1167%
6−7
−1167%
Far Cry 5 24−27
+550%
4−5
−550%
Forza Horizon 4 40−45
+4000%
1−2
−4000%
Hogwarts Legacy 14−16
+1400%
1−2
−1400%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 24−27
+700%
3−4
−700%

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite 24−27
+733%
3−4
−733%

This is how GTX 780 Ti and ATI HD 4850 compete in popular games:

  • GTX 780 Ti is 793% faster in 900p
  • GTX 780 Ti is 140% faster in 1080p
  • GTX 780 Ti is 795% faster in 1200p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Grand Theft Auto V, with 1440p resolution and the High Preset, the GTX 780 Ti is 4100% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Without exception, GTX 780 Ti surpassed ATI HD 4850 in all 57 of our tests.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 22.81 2.47
Recency 7 November 2013 25 June 2008
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 110 Watt

GTX 780 Ti has a 823.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

ATI HD 4850, on the other hand, has 127.3% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 4850 in performance tests.

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