Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition sales 28 August 2009. This is a laptop graphics card based on a TeraScale architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.85 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 54.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	M98
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	28 August 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	800	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	503 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	956 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate	20.12	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.8048 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	16	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	40	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	850 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	54.4 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1
OpenGL	3.3	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.1
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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