Radeon HD 4850 vs Radeon HD 4830

Radeon HD 4850
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2008
Radeon HD 4850
Radeon HD 4830
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2008
Radeon HD 4830

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 4850
    113%
  • Radeon HD 4830
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850

Around 13% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4830

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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 4850Radeon HD 4830
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 PRO)vsRV770 (RV770 LE)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs256 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs956 million
Shaders800vs640
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock625 MHzvs575 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4850Radeon HD 4830
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 4850Radeon HD 4830
TDP110 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2008vs21 Oct 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    10.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4830
    9.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4850
    25.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4830
    18.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4850
    63.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4830
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4850
    1000.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4830
    736.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 4850
    1890
  • Radeon HD 4830
    1660

Points (higher is better)