ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition vs GeForce4 MX 440

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1514not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameNV17 A3M98
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date6 February 2002 (22 years ago)28 August 2009 (15 years ago)

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 coresno data800
Core clock speed275 MHz503 MHz
Number of transistors29 million956 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm55 nm
Texture fill rate1.10020.12
Floating-point processing powerno data0.8048 TFLOPS
ROPs216
TMUs440

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDRGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount64 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz850 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s54.4 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGANo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.010.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGL1.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 February 2002 28 August 2009
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 150 nm 55 nm

ATI Mobility HD 4850 Mac Edition has an age advantage of 7 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce4 MX 440 and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce4 MX 440 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition is a notebook one.


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