ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition vs HD 8450G

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1203not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.76no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameScrapperM98
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 May 2013 (12 years ago)28 August 2009 (16 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 cores192800
Core clock speed533 MHz503 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,303 million956 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate8.64020.12
Floating-point processing power0.2765 TFLOPS0.8048 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs1240
L1 Cacheno data160 KB
L2 Cacheno data256 KB

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceIGPPCIe 2.0 x16

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 SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared512 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared850 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data54.4 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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


Recency 23 May 2013 28 August 2009
Chip lithography 32 nm 55 nm

HD 8450G has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 72% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8450G and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

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