ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	409	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	10.81	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	GP107B	RV790
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	3 January 2017 (7 years ago)	9 September 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 cores	640	640
Core clock speed	1354 MHz	700 MHz
Boost clock speed	1493 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	3,300 million	959 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	130 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	97 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	59.72	22.40
Floating-point processing power	1.911 TFLOPS	0.896 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	16
TMUs	40	32

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 size	large	no data
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	2x 6-pin

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4000 MB	512 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz	750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	96 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 Connectors	DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDCP	2.2	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream	+	-
GPU Boost	3.0	no data
Ansel	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	6.4	4.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	3 January 2017	9 September 2009
Maximum RAM amount	4000 MB	512 MB
Chip lithography	14 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	130 Watt

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