RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated29
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data34.23
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameM98AD104
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date28 August 2009 (15 years ago)9 August 2023 (1 year 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 cores8006144
Core clock speed503 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2175 MHz
Number of transistors956 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data130 Watt
Texture fill rate20.12417.6
Floating-point processing power0.8048 TFLOPS26.73 TFLOPS
ROPs1680
TMUs40192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data245 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB20 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit160 Bit
Memory clock speed850 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth54.4 GB/s360.0 GB/s

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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 August 2009 9 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 20 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 5 nm

RTX 4000 Ada Generation has an age advantage of 13 years, a 3900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1000% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition and RTX 4000 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition is a notebook card while RTX 4000 Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition
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