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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2: specs and benchmarks
Price now
305$
Games supported
58%
- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 550
- Max video memory 2048 MB
- Memory type GDDR3, GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 888
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2009
Performance
3.07
Summary
ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 sales 9 January 2009. This is a Terascale 1 architecture notebook card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of GDDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 888 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 89.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
3.07%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 662 | |
| Value for money | 0.38 | |
| Architecture | Terascale 1 (2008−2010) | |
| GPU code name | M98-XT | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 9 January 2009 (14 years old) | |
| Current price | $305 | of 158889 (A100 PCIe) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1600 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 550 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 956 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Texture fill rate | 22.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 2x 880.0 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2'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 4870 X2: 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 | GDDR3, GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 888 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 89.6 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2. 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 4870 X2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2. 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.
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 4870 X2 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 HD | 44 |
Performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 5−6 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 3−4 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 12−14 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 6−7 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 6−7 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 9−10 | |
| Hitman 3 | 4−5 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 3−4 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 7−8 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 5−6 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 2−3 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 5−6 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 3−4 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 12−14 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 6−7 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 6−7 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 9−10 | |
| Hitman 3 | 4−5 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 3−4 | |
| Metro Exodus | 3−4 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 7−8 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 5−6 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 2−3 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 5−6 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 3−4 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 6−7 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 6−7 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 9−10 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 2−3 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 5−6 | |
| Hitman 3 | 6−7 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 4−5 | |
| Metro Exodus | 4−5 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 2−3 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 4−5 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 5−6 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 3−4 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 2−3 | |
| Hitman 3 | 3−4 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 3−4 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 1−2 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1−2 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 3−4 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 1−2 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 1−2 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 3−4 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 1−2 |
Relative perfomance
Overall Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 is GeForce GT 650M, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2:
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 4870 X2 according to our statistics.
