Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce GTX 650
Summary
Radeon HD 4850
100%
GeForce GTX 650
152%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 |
| 45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4850 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 52% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650
The GeForce GTX 650 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV770 (RV770 PRO) | vs | GK106 () |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 256 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 956 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 625 MHz | vs | 1058 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 993 MHz
1986 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4850 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | vs | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Jun 2008 | vs | 27 Nov 2013 |
Radeon HD 4850
10.00 GP/s
GeForce GTX 650
8.46 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
25.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 650
33.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
63.60 GB/s
GeForce GTX 650
80.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
1000.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 650
812.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
1890
GeForce GTX 650
2880
Points (higher is better)