Radeon Pro 5300M vs HD 4860

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Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated322
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data3.75
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Navi / RDNA (2019−2020)
GPU code nameRV790Navi 14
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date9 September 2009 (14 years ago)13 November 2019 (4 years ago)
Current priceno data$2068

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores6401280
Core clock speed700 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1250 MHz
Number of transistors959 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate22.40100.0
Floating-point performance896.0 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 4860 and Radeon Pro 5300M 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.

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed3000 MHz12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s192.0 GB/s
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-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 September 2009 13 November 2019
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 65 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4860 and Radeon Pro 5300M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4860 is a desktop card while Radeon Pro 5300M is a mobile workstation one.


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