ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition vs Quadro M5000M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking304not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency12.46no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameGM204M98
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date18 August 2015 (9 years ago)28 August 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1,536800
Core clock speed975 MHz503 MHz
Boost clock speed1051 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,200 million956 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattno data
Texture fill rate93.6020.12
Floating-point processing power2.995 TFLOPS0.8048 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs9640

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz850 MHz
Memory bandwidth160 GB/s54.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
Display Port1.2no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-
3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Display Management+no data
Optimus+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1210.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.44.1
OpenGL4.53.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 August 2015 28 August 2009
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm

M5000M has an age advantage of 5 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M5000M and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro M5000M is a mobile workstation card while Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition is a mobile workstation one.


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