GeForce G 103M vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking807not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.21no data
Power efficiency1.67no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code nameRV770G98
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 June 2008 (16 years ago)1 September 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

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 cores8008
Core clock speed625 MHz640 MHz
Number of transistors956 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattno data
Texture fill rate25.00no data
Floating-point processing power1 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs40no data

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 x16no data
Length246 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed993 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth63.55 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Videono data

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10.0
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ATI HD 4850 1026
+1555%
G 103M 62

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 HD 4850 8972
+2351%
G 103M 366

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 June 2008 1 September 2009
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm

ATI HD 4850 has a 18.2% more advanced lithography process.

G 103M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce G 103M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4850 is a desktop card while GeForce G 103M is a notebook one.


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