Radeon R8 M365DX vs ATI HD 4860

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated942
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameRV790Meso
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date9 September 2009 (15 years ago)3 June 2015 (9 years 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 cores640384
Core clock speed700 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1125 MHz
Number of transistors959 million1,550 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Wattno data
Texture fill rate22.4027.00
Floating-point processing power0.896 TFLOPS0.864 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3224

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth96 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 outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.0
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 September 2009 3 June 2015
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm

R8 M365DX has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4860 and Radeon R8 M365DX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4860 is a desktop card while Radeon R8 M365DX is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon HD 4860
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