ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs ATI HD 4830

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking859not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.26no data
Power efficiency1.57no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRV770RV790
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 October 2008 (16 years ago)9 September 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$130 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores640640
Core clock speed575 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors956 million959 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt130 Watt
Texture fill rate18.4022.40
Floating-point processing power0.736 TFLOPS0.896 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3232

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length246 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz750 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/s96 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2008 9 September 2009
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 130 Watt

ATI HD 4830 has 36.8% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 4860, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4830 and Radeon HD 4860. We've got no test results to judge.


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