GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated9
Place by popularitynot in top-10012
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data67.41
Power efficiencyno data24.82
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameM97AD104
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 March 2009 (15 years ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores6407168
Core clock speed650 MHz1980 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors826 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data220 Watt
Texture fill rate20.80554.4
Floating-point processing power0.832 TFLOPS35.48 TFLOPS
ROPs1680
TMUs32224
Tensor Coresno data224
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s504.2 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2009 8 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm

RTX 4070 SUPER has an age advantage of 14 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 4860 is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is a desktop one.


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