Radeon HD 4860: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Radeon HD 4860 sales 9 September 2009. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 96 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 130 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 4860: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
| GPU code name | RV790 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 9 September 2009 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 4860's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 4860's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 640 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 700 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 959 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 22.40 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 896.0 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 4860 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 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 4860: 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 | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 3000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 96 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 4860. 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 4860, 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 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 4860 is GeForce GTX 460.
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