ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 vs ATI HD 5850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking615not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.59no data
Power efficiency2.36no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameCypressM92
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date30 September 2009 (15 years ago)9 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 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 cores144080
Core clock speed725 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million242 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Wattno data
Texture fill rate52.204.000
Floating-point processing power2.088 TFLOPS0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs728

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-II
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s11.2 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 HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.04.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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 5850 13267
+1774%
ATI Mobility HD 4530 708

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2009 9 January 2009
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

ATI HD 5850 has an age advantage of 8 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5850 and Mobility Radeon HD 4530. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5850 is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 4530 is a notebook one.


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