FirePro W8000 vs Mobility Radeon HD 4850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro W8000 and Mobility Radeon HD 4850, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the FirePro W8000 stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 4850, check out specs charts below.

Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Mobility Radeon HD 4850 here:

Main Specs

  FirePro W8000 Mobility Radeon HD 4850
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI No outputs
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  • FirePro W8000 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • FirePro W8000 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • FirePro W8000 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - in Laptops.
  • FirePro W8000 is build with GCN 1.0 architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - with Terascale 1.
  • Core clock speed of FirePro W8000 is 400 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • FirePro W8000 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro W8000 is 4650 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 3−4
ultra / 1080p 10−11 1−2
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
low / 720p 35−40 14−16
medium / 1080p 21−24 5−6
The average gaming FPS of FirePro W8000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 250% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Full Specs

  FirePro W8000 Mobility Radeon HD 4850
Architecture GCN 1.0 Terascale 1
Code name Tahiti M98
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 14 June 2012 9 January 2009
Pipelines 1792 800
Core clock speed 900 MHz 500 MHz
Transistor count 4,313 million 956 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 100.8 20.00
Floating-point performance 3,226 gflops 800.0 gflops
Length 279 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz 850 MHz
Memory bandwidth 176 GB/s 54.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_1) 10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model 5.1 4.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan 1.2.131 N/A
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 391 Mh/s
Laptop size large
Form factor full height / full length
StereoOutput3D +
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support +
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