ATI Radeon 9250 vs ATI HD 4850

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	824	1541
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.22	no data
Power efficiency	1.66	no data
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	RV770	RV280
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	25 June 2008 (16 years ago)	1 March 2004 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$199	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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 cores	800	no data
Core clock speed	625 MHz	240 MHz
Number of transistors	956 million	36 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	25.00	0.96
Floating-point processing power	1 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	40	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	246 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	993 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	63.55 GB/s	3.2 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 Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	8.1
Shader Model	4.1	no data
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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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:

900p	28	no data
Full HD	40	no data
1200p	19	no data

Cost per frame, $

1080p

4.98

no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	25 June 2008	1 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Chip lithography	55 nm	150 nm

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