GeForce MX230 vs Mobility Radeon HD 4870

Place in performance ranking	831	609
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.17	1.62
Architecture	Terascale 1 (2008−2010)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	M98-XT	N17S-G0
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	9 January 2009 (15 years ago)	20 February 2019 (5 years ago)
Current price	$305	$1221

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GeForce MX230 has 853% better value for money than ATI Mobility HD 4870.

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	800	256
Core clock speed	550 MHz	1519 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1531 MHz
Number of transistors	956 million	1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	22.00	25.31
Floating-point performance	880.0 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce MX230 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	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	888 MHz	7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	56.83 GB/s	48.06 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

No outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.1	6.4
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
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

28
+33.3%

−33.3%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

5−6

−60%

8−9
+60%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −550%	13 +550%
Battlefield 5	3−4 −567%	20 +567%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 −45.5%	16−18 +45.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −60%	8−9 +60%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −650%	15 +650%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −1400%	15 +1400%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −425%	21 +425%
Hitman 3	3−4 −233%	10−11 +233%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 −200%	9−10 +200%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 −80%	9−10 +80%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −25%	10 +25%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −400%	10 +400%
Battlefield 5	3−4 −433%	16 +433%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 −45.5%	16−18 +45.5%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −60%	8−9 +60%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −550%	13 +550%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −1200%	13 +1200%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −300%	16 +300%
Hitman 3	3−4 −233%	10−11 +233%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 −200%	9−10 +200%
Metro Exodus	3−4 −33.3%	4 +33.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 −80%	9−10 +80%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	8−9 −12.5%	9 +12.5%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 −200%	15 +200%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −200%	6 +200%
Battlefield 5	3−4 −300%	12 +300%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −60%	8−9 +60%
Far Cry 5	2−3 −500%	12 +500%
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −1100%	12 +1100%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −200%	12 +200%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	5−6 −80%	9 +80%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5 −75%	7−8 +75%
Hitman 3	5−6 −60%	8−9 +60%
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10 −22.2%	10−12 +22.2%
Metro Exodus	0−1	3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −200%	3−4 +200%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −33.3%	8−9 +33.3%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%
Far Cry 5	3−4 −133%	7−8 +133%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 −100%	4−5 +100%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −50%	3−4 +50%
Hitman 3	2−3 −100%	4−5 +100%
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8 +0%	7−8 +0%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −100%	2−3 +100%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	2−3
Far Cry 5	3−4 −66.7%	5−6 +66.7%
Far Cry New Dawn	5−6 −40%	7−8 +40%