ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 vs HD 8310G

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameScrapper LiteM97
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateJuly 2013 (11 years ago)3 March 2009 (15 years ago)

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 cores128640
Core clock speed554 MHz650 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,303 million826 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate5.76020.80
Floating-point processing power0.1843 TFLOPS0.832 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs832

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
InterfaceIGPPCIe 2.0 x16
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data64 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

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

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 32 nm 40 nm

HD 8310G has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8310G and Mobility Radeon HD 4860. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8310G is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 4860 is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8310G
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