Radeon HD 4850 vs Radeon R7 265
Summary
Radeon HD 4850
100%
Radeon R7 265
365%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850 |
| 40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 265 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R7 265 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 265% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R7 265
The Radeon R7 265 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 | | Radeon R7 265 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV770 (RV770 PRO) | vs | Pitcairn (Pitcairn PRO) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 256 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 956 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 1024 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 16 |
| Core clock | 625 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 | | Radeon R7 265 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 993 MHz
1986 MHz effective | vs | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4850 | | Radeon R7 265 | |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Jun 2008 | vs | 13 Feb 2014 |
Radeon HD 4850
10.00 GP/s
Radeon R7 265
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
25.00 GT/s
Radeon R7 265
59.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
63.60 GB/s
Radeon R7 265
179.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
1000.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 265
1894.40 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
1890
Radeon R7 265
6900
Points (higher is better)