Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce 9800 GT

Radeon HD 4850
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2008
Radeon HD 4850
GeForce 9800 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jul 2008
GeForce 9800 GT

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 4850
    144%
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850

Around 44% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Radeon HD 4850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4850

The Radeon HD 4850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4850GeForce 9800 GT
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 PRO)vsG92 (G92-270-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs65 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs754 million
Shaders800vs112
Compute Units10vs7
Core clock625 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4850GeForce 9800 GT
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed993 MHz
1986 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4850GeForce 9800 GT
TDP110 wattsvs125 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2008vs21 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    10.00 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    9.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    25.00 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    33.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4850
    63.60 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4850
    1000.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    336.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 4850
    1890
  • GeForce 9800 GT
    1310

Points (higher is better)