Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2 vs Radeon HD 4850

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 6 Dec 2015
Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
Radeon HD 4850
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2008
Radeon HD 4850
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    100%
  • Radeon HD 4850
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2Radeon HD 4850
GPU NameOpal (Opal PRO)vsRV770 (RV770 PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs55 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs256 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs956 million
Shaders384vs800
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock620 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2Radeon HD 4850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs993 MHz
1986 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2Radeon HD 4850
TDP0 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date6 Dec 2015vs25 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    5.72 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4850
    10.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    17.16 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4850
    25.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4850
    63.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    549.10 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4850
    1000.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 M260 Rev. 2
    1880
  • Radeon HD 4850
    1890

Points (higher is better)