ATI Radeon HD 4850: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 4850 sales 25 June 2008 at a recommended price of $199 . This is a Terascale 1 architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 993 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 63.55 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 246 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 110 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.65% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 4850: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking770
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money0.16
ArchitectureTerascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameRV770
Market segmentDesktop
Release date25 June 2008 (15 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$199
Current price$138 (0.7x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Radeon HD 4850's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 4850's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores800of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed625 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors956 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate25.00of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance1,000.0 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 4850 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length246 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 4850: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed993 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth63.55 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 4850. 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 4850, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 4850. 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.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

ATI HD 4850 1026

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: 17%

ATI HD 4850 8972

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

ATI HD 4850 11272

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

ATI HD 4850 72891

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 4850 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:

900p28
Full HD40
1200p19

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 5−6

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Battlefield 5 5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
Hitman 3 5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn 4−5
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9−10
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Battlefield 5 5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 12−14
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
Hitman 3 5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn 4−5
Metro Exodus 3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 9−10
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6−7
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Battlefield 5 5−6
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6−7
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
Hitman 3 5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Metro Exodus 1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 5−6

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 4−5
Forza Horizon 4 2−3

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Hitman 3 3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn 6−7
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Far Cry 5 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 6−7
Forza Horizon 4 2−3

Relative perfomance

Radeon HD 4850's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 4850 is GeForce GTX 850A, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

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