Mobility Radeon HD 4850 vs Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)

Place in performance ranking	675	902
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	no data	0.15
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code name	Surface Book	M98
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 October 2015 (8 years ago)	9 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Current price	no data	$187

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	800
Core clock speed	954 MHz	500 MHz
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	956 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Texture fill rate	no data	20.00
Floating-point performance	no data	800.0 gflops

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	no data	PCIe 2.0 x16

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	850 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	54.4 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 Connectors

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No outputs

Supported GPU Technologies

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

Optimus

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API Compatibility

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

DirectX	DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	no data	4.1
OpenGL	no data	3.3
OpenCL	no data	1.1
Vulkan	no data	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

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:

Full HD

−46.4%

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+46.4%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 +500%	1−2 −500%
Battlefield 5	9−10 +800%	1−2 −800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16 +40%	10−11 −40%
Far Cry 5	6−7	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
Forza Horizon 4	10−11 +400%	2−3 −400%
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 +75%	4−5 −75%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +42.9%	7−8 −42.9%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 +500%	1−2 −500%
Battlefield 5	9−10 +800%	1−2 −800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	14−16 +40%	10−11 −40%
Far Cry 5	6−7	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
Forza Horizon 4	10−11 +400%	2−3 −400%
Metro Exodus	5−6 +150%	2−3 −150%
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 +75%	4−5 −75%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +42.9%	7−8 −42.9%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 +500%	1−2 −500%
Battlefield 5	9−10 +800%	1−2 −800%
Far Cry 5	6−7	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
Forza Horizon 4	10−11 +400%	2−3 −400%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Metro Exodus	2−3	0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8 +40%	5−6 −40%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2	0−1
Far Cry 5	6−7 +100%	3−4 −100%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	0−1	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3	0−1
Far Cry 5	4−5 +33.3%	3−4 −33.3%
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7 +20%	5−6 −20%
Forza Horizon 4	0−1	0−1

This is how Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) and ATI Mobility HD 4850 compete in popular games:

ATI Mobility HD 4850 is 46.4% faster than Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) in 1080p

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

in Battlefield 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) is 800% faster than the ATI Mobility HD 4850.

All in all, in popular games: