AMD Radeon E8870 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon E8870 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +91%

1.536 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

0.804 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

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Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Aug 2009

Embedded

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

10

768

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.12 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

804.8 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

161.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

M98

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

M98 L2 (216-0732019)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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