ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850: specs and benchmarks

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ATI Mobility HD 4850
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850
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  • Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
  • Core clock speed 500
  • Max video memory 1024 MB
  • Memory type GDDR3
  • Memory clock speed 850
  • Maximum resolution
Year of release 2009
Performance 1.59

Summary

ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 4850 sales 9 January 2009. This is a Terascale 1 architecture notebook card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 850 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 54.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at

1.59%

of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 4850: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking855
Value for money0.13
ArchitectureTerascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameM98
Market segmentLaptop
Release date9 January 2009 (14 years old)
Current price$187 of 158889 (A100 PCIe)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Mobility Radeon HD 4850's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 4850's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores800of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed500 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors956 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Texture fill rate20.00of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance800.0 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 4850's 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 sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 4850: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed850 MHzof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth54.4 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon HD 4850. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 4850, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Mobility Radeon HD 4850. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI Mobility HD 4850 1.59

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.

Benchmark coverage: 16%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD41

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
Battlefield 5 2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
Far Cry 5 1−2
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
Forza Horizon 4 3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2−3

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
Battlefield 5 2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
Far Cry 5 1−2
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
Forza Horizon 4 3−4
Metro Exodus 1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
Battlefield 5 2−3
Far Cry 5 1−2
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
Forza Horizon 4 3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 3−4
Metro Exodus 3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2−3

1440p
Ultra Preset

Far Cry 5 2−3
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3
Forza Horizon 4 0−1

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
Hitman 3 2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2 0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 7−8
Forza Horizon 4 1−2
Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2

Relative perfomance

Overall Mobility Radeon HD 4850 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is GeForce GT 735M, which is slower by 3% and lower by 11 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with Mobility Radeon HD 4850 according to our statistics.

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