Radeon 760M vs ATI Mobility HD 4870

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Mobility Radeon HD 4870 with Radeon 760M, including specs and performance data.

ATI Mobility HD 4870
2009
512 MB GDDR3
2.11

760M outperforms ATI Mobility HD 4870 by a whopping 613% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking862348
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data72.39
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameM98Phoenix
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 January 2009 (15 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a 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 cores800512
Core clock speed550 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2599 MHz
Number of transistors956 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate22.0083.17
Floating-point processing power0.88 TFLOPS5.323 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4032
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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 x8
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed888 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth56.83 GB/sno data
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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

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
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI Mobility HD 4870 2.11
Radeon 760M 15.05
+613%

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

ATI Mobility HD 4870 6631
Radeon 760M 32985
+397%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD28
−14.3%
32
+14.3%
1440p2−3
−850%
19
+850%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−500%
30
+500%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−400%
35−40
+400%
Battlefield 5 2−3
−2400%
50−55
+2400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−520%
30−35
+520%
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−380%
24
+380%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−1100%
35−40
+1100%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−740%
40−45
+740%
Forza Horizon 4 9−10
−1000%
95−100
+1000%
Hitman 3 7−8
−314%
27−30
+314%
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
−328%
75−80
+328%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−950%
40−45
+950%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−400%
50−55
+400%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−119%
75−80
+119%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−400%
35−40
+400%
Battlefield 5 2−3
−2400%
50−55
+2400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−520%
30−35
+520%
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−260%
18
+260%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−1100%
35−40
+1100%
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
−740%
40−45
+740%
Forza Horizon 4 9−10
−1000%
95−100
+1000%
Hitman 3 7−8
−314%
27−30
+314%
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
−328%
75−80
+328%
Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−950%
40−45
+950%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−340%
44
+340%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−200%
35−40
+200%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−119%
75−80
+119%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 7−8
−400%
35−40
+400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
−520%
30−35
+520%
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
−380%
24−27
+380%
Far Cry 5 3−4
−1100%
35−40
+1100%
Forza Horizon 4 9−10
−1000%
95−100
+1000%
Hitman 3 7−8
−314%
27−30
+314%
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
−328%
75−80
+328%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
−270%
37
+270%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 12−14
−91.7%
23
+91.7%
Watch Dogs: Legion 35−40
−119%
75−80
+119%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5
−950%
40−45
+950%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 3−4
−867%
27−30
+867%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
−667%
21−24
+667%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−650%
14−16
+650%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
−1500%
16−18
+1500%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
−700%
8−9
+700%
Far Cry 5 2−3
−800%
18−20
+800%
Hitman 3 7−8
−157%
18−20
+157%
Horizon Zero Dawn 6−7
−417%
30−35
+417%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
−1500%
16−18
+1500%
Watch Dogs: Legion 12−14
−675%
90−95
+675%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
−400%
24−27
+400%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn 1−2
−1000%
10−12
+1000%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
−350%
9−10
+350%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
−600%
7−8
+600%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
−700%
8−9
+700%
Far Cry 5 1−2
−700%
8−9
+700%
Watch Dogs: Legion 0−1 6−7

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 3−4
−367%
14−16
+367%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%
Metro Exodus 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%
Metro Exodus 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+0%
24−27
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
+0%
12−14
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%
Metro Exodus 27−30
+0%
27−30
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 27−30
+0%
27−30
+0%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%
Hitman 3 10−12
+0%
10−12
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
+0%
75−80
+0%
Metro Exodus 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
+0%
2−3
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 20−22
+0%
20−22
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
+0%
14−16
+0%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 4870 and Radeon 760M compete in popular games:

  • Radeon 760M is 14% faster in 1080p
  • Radeon 760M is 850% faster in 1440p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Battlefield 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the Radeon 760M is 2400% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Radeon 760M is ahead in 54 tests (76%)
  • there's a draw in 17 tests (24%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.11 15.05
Recency 9 January 2009 6 December 2023
Chip lithography 55 nm 4 nm

Radeon 760M has a 613.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 14 years, and a 1275% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon 760M is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 4870 in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is a notebook card while Radeon 760M is a desktop one.


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