Radeon 610M vs HD 4850

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Aggregate performance score

ATI HD 4850
2008
512 MB GDDR3, 110 Watt
2.65

610M outperforms HD 4850 by a small 8% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking777753
Place by popularitynot in top-10045
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.17no data
ArchitectureTerascale 1 (2008−2010)RDNA 2 (2020−2022)
GPU code nameRV770RDNA 2
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 June 2008 (15 years ago)20 September 2022 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data
Current price$138 (0.7x MSRP)no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores800128
Core clock speed625 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors956 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate25.0015.20
Floating-point performance1,000.0 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon 610M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length246 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed993 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth63.55 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data-

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-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. 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.

ATI HD 4850 2.65
Radeon 610M 2.85
+7.5%

610M outperforms HD 4850 by 8% based on our aggregated benchmark results.


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
Radeon 610M 1104
+7.6%

610M outperforms HD 4850 by 8% in Passmark.

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
+14.5%
Radeon 610M 7834

HD 4850 outperforms 610M by 15% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

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
Radeon 610M 13981
+24%

610M outperforms HD 4850 by 24% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

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
Radeon 610M 160598
+120%

610M outperforms HD 4850 by 120% in 3DMark Ice Storm GPU.

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:

900p28
−7.1%
30−35
+7.1%
Full HD39
+200%
13
−200%
1200p19
+5.6%
18−21
−5.6%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−33.3%
4−5
+33.3%
Battlefield 5 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 6−7
+0%
6−7
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%
Far Cry 5 10−11
−10%
10−12
+10%
Far Cry New Dawn 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Forza Horizon 4 10−11
−10%
10−12
+10%
Hitman 3 7−8
+0%
7−8
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 14−16
−6.7%
16−18
+6.7%
Metro Exodus 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−16.7%
7−8
+16.7%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12−14
−41.7%
17
+41.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−33.3%
4−5
+33.3%
Battlefield 5 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 6−7
+0%
6−7
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%
Far Cry 5 10−11
−90%
19
+90%
Far Cry New Dawn 4−5
−100%
8
+100%
Forza Horizon 4 10−11
−10%
10−12
+10%
Hitman 3 7−8
+0%
7−8
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 14−16
−6.7%
16−18
+6.7%
Metro Exodus 2−3
−700%
16
+700%
Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−16.7%
7−8
+16.7%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12−14
+0%
12
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6−7
−83.3%
11
+83.3%
Watch Dogs: Legion 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−33.3%
4−5
+33.3%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 6−7
+0%
6−7
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−20%
6−7
+20%
Far Cry 5 10−11
−10%
10−12
+10%
Forza Horizon 4 10−11
−10%
10−12
+10%
Horizon Zero Dawn 14−16
−6.7%
16−18
+6.7%
Metro Exodus 2−3
−600%
14
+600%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6−7
−16.7%
7
+16.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion 2−3
−50%
3−4
+50%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 6−7
−16.7%
7−8
+16.7%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 4−5
−25%
5−6
+25%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
+0%
5−6
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Far Cry 5 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 7−8
+0%
7−8
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry 5 9−10
+0%
9−10
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
+0%
1−2
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 0−1 0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn 3−4
+0%
3−4
+0%
Metro Exodus 5−6
+0%
5−6
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
+0%
4−5
+0%

This is how ATI HD 4850 and Radeon 610M compete in popular games:

  • Radeon 610M is 7% faster in 900p
  • ATI HD 4850 is 200% faster in 1080p
  • ATI HD 4850 is 6% faster in 1200p

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

  • in Metro Exodus, with 1080p resolution and the High Preset, the Radeon 610M is 700% faster than the ATI HD 4850.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Radeon 610M is ahead in 32 tests (57%)
  • there's a draw in 24 tests (43%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.65 2.85
Recency 25 June 2008 20 September 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB System Shared
Chip lithography 55 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 15 Watt

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon 610M.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4850 is a desktop card while Radeon 610M is a notebook one.


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