Mobility Radeon HD 4860: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 4860 sales 3 March 2009. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Terascale 1 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
General info
Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 4860: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Terascale 1 (2008−2010) | |
| GPU code name | M97-XT | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 3 March 2009 (15 years ago) |
Technical specs
Mobility Radeon HD 4860's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 4860's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 640 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 650 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 826 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Texture fill rate | 20.80 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 832.0 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Mobility Radeon HD 4860'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 size | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 4860: 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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 64 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon HD 4860. 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 4860, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Mobility Radeon HD 4860 is GeForce MX230.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Mobility Radeon HD 4860 according to our statistics.
