Radeon HD 4850: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon HD 4850 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.66% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
ATI started Radeon HD 4850 sales 25 June 2008 at a recommended price of $199 . This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.99 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 63.55 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics 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.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 4850: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 811 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 0.26 | |
| Power efficiency | 1.66 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
| GPU code name | RV770 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 25 June 2008 (16 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
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 cores | 800 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 625 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 956 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 110 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 25.00 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 40 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & 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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 246 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
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 type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 993 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 63.55 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
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 Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon HD 4850, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/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 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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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:
| 900p | 29 | |
| Full HD | 40 | |
| 1200p | 19 |
Cost per frame, $
| 1080p | 4.98 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 5−6 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 9−10 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 0−1 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 4−5 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 7−8 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 5−6 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 5−6 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 12−14 | |
| Hitman 3 | 7−8 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Metro Exodus | 2−3 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 6−7 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 35−40 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 9−10 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 0−1 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 4−5 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 7−8 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 5−6 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 5−6 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 12−14 | |
| Hitman 3 | 7−8 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Metro Exodus | 2−3 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 6−7 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 12−14 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 35−40 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 9−10 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 0−1 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 7−8 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 5−6 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 5−6 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 12−14 | |
| Hitman 3 | 7−8 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 10−12 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 12−14 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 35−40 |
Full HD
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 6−7 |
1440p
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 4−5 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 4−5 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 2−3 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 3−4 | |
| Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 7−8 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 2−3 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 16−18 |
1440p
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 6−7 |
4K
High Preset
| Battlefield 5 | 1−2 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 1−2 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 1−2 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 1−2 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 1−2 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
4K
Epic Preset
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 4−5 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 4850 is GeForce GT 545, which is faster by 8% and higher by 22 positions in our ranking.
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