AMD Radeon E9172 MXM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM 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 E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9172 MXM +55%

1.248 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

0.804 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Aug 2009

Embedded

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

10

-

512

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.12 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

804.8 GFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

161.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

M98

E9170

GPU Variant

M98 L2 (216-0732019)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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