Radeon HD 4850: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon HD 4850 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.32% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

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 ranking866
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.21
Power efficiency1.70of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRV770
Market segmentDesktop
Release date25 June 2008 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores800of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed625 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors956 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate25.00of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power1 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs40of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache160 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache256 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length246 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed993 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth63.55 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
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 score.

ATI HD 4850
2.32

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.

ATI HD 4850 1026
Samples: 2821

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.

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.

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.

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

Cost per frame, $

1080p4.98

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 6−7
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 8−9
Counter-Strike 2 6−7
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 7−8
Fortnite 12−14
Forza Horizon 4 12−14
Forza Horizon 5 6−7
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 12−14
Valorant 40−45

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 8−9
Counter-Strike 2 6−7
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 45−50
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Dota 2 24−27
Far Cry 5 7−8
Fortnite 12−14
Forza Horizon 4 12−14
Forza Horizon 5 6−7
Grand Theft Auto V 6−7
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8
Metro Exodus 4−5
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Valorant 40−45

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 8−9
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Dota 2 24−27
Far Cry 5 7−8
Forza Horizon 4 12−14
Hogwarts Legacy 7−8
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
Valorant 40−45

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 12−14

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 6−7
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 18−20
Grand Theft Auto V 1−2
Metro Exodus 0−1
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 21−24
Valorant 21−24

1440p
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Far Cry 5 4−5
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
Hogwarts Legacy 2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 4−5

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 16−18
Valorant 12−14

4K
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Dota 2 6−7
Far Cry 5 1−2
Forza Horizon 4 2−3
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 3−4

4K
Epic

Fortnite 3−4

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 4850's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Radeon HD 4850 100
Radeon E6760 85.34

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 4850 is GeForce GT 545, which is faster by 9% and higher by 28 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 4850:

Radeon HD 4850 100

Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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