GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon HD 4850 with GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile, including specs and performance data.

ATI HD 4850
2008
512 MB GDDR3, 110 Watt
2.66

RTX 3050 Mobile outperforms ATI HD 4850 by a whopping 790% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking812237
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.26no data
Power efficiency1.6621.64
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV770GA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 June 2008 (16 years ago)11 May 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 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 cores8002048
Core clock speed625 MHz712 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1057 MHz
Number of transistors956 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate25.0067.65
Floating-point processing power1 TFLOPS4.329 TFLOPS
ROPs1640
TMUs4064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length246 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed993 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth63.55 GB/s192.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. 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.

ATI HD 4850 2.66
RTX 3050 Mobile 23.68
+790%

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
RTX 3050 Mobile 9122
+789%

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
RTX 3050 Mobile 77234
+761%

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
RTX 3050 Mobile 90224
+700%

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
RTX 3050 Mobile 580370
+696%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p29
−762%
250−260
+762%
Full HD40
−133%
93
+133%
1200p19
−742%
160−170
+742%
1440p5−6
−900%
50
+900%
4K3−4
−1000%
33
+1000%

Cost per frame, $

1080p4.98no data
1440p39.80no data
4K66.33no data

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−2020%
106
+2020%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10
−478%
50−55
+478%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 75
Battlefield 5 4−5
−1850%
75−80
+1850%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7−8
−586%
45−50
+586%
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−1560%
83
+1560%
Far Cry 5 5−6
−1000%
55−60
+1000%
Far Cry New Dawn 7−8
−786%
60−65
+786%
Forza Horizon 4 12−14
−977%
140−150
+977%
Hitman 3 7−8
−571%
45−50
+571%
Horizon Zero Dawn 21−24
−424%
110−120
+424%
Metro Exodus 2−3
−3950%
80−85
+3950%
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−933%
60−65
+933%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−12
−627%
80−85
+627%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−163%
100−105
+163%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10
−478%
50−55
+478%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 62
Battlefield 5 4−5
−1850%
75−80
+1850%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7−8
−586%
45−50
+586%
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−1120%
61
+1120%
Far Cry 5 5−6
−1000%
55−60
+1000%
Far Cry New Dawn 7−8
−786%
60−65
+786%
Forza Horizon 4 12−14
−977%
140−150
+977%
Hitman 3 7−8
−571%
45−50
+571%
Horizon Zero Dawn 21−24
−424%
110−120
+424%
Metro Exodus 2−3
−3950%
80−85
+3950%
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−933%
60−65
+933%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−12
−1018%
123
+1018%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−292%
50−55
+292%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−163%
100−105
+163%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10
−478%
50−55
+478%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 53
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7−8
−586%
45−50
+586%
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−1120%
61
+1120%
Far Cry 5 5−6
−1000%
55−60
+1000%
Forza Horizon 4 12−14
−977%
140−150
+977%
Hitman 3 7−8
−571%
45−50
+571%
Horizon Zero Dawn 21−24
−410%
107
+410%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−12
−864%
106
+864%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−400%
65
+400%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−86.8%
71
+86.8%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−933%
60−65
+933%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 4−5
−1025%
45−50
+1025%
Far Cry New Dawn 4−5
−800%
35−40
+800%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−1100%
24−27
+1100%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−1250%
27−30
+1250%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
−2900%
30
+2900%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−800%
27−30
+800%
Hitman 3 8−9
−250%
27−30
+250%
Horizon Zero Dawn 7−8
−1014%
78
+1014%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3
−1350%
27−30
+1350%
Watch Dogs: Legion 16−18
−744%
130−140
+744%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−550%
35−40
+550%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 1−2
−2200%
21−24
+2200%
Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
−1700%
18−20
+1700%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−600%
14−16
+600%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−2300%
24
+2300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
−1200%
12−14
+1200%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−1200%
12−14
+1200%
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1 19

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−425%
21−24
+425%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 40
+0%
40
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 130−140
+0%
130−140
+0%
Metro Exodus 69
+0%
69
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 78
+0%
78
+0%

4K
High Preset

Hitman 3 34
+0%
34
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Metro Exodus 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 44
+0%
44
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 12
+0%
12
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 45
+0%
45
+0%

This is how ATI HD 4850 and RTX 3050 Mobile compete in popular games:

  • RTX 3050 Mobile is 762% faster in 900p
  • RTX 3050 Mobile is 133% faster in 1080p
  • RTX 3050 Mobile is 742% faster in 1200p
  • RTX 3050 Mobile is 900% faster in 1440p
  • RTX 3050 Mobile is 1000% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Metro Exodus, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RTX 3050 Mobile is 3950% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • RTX 3050 Mobile is ahead in 57 tests (84%)
  • there's a draw in 11 tests (16%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.66 23.68
Recency 25 June 2008 11 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 75 Watt

RTX 3050 Mobile has a 790.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 12 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 587.5% more advanced lithography process, and 46.7% lower power consumption.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 4850 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4850 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile is a notebook one.


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