GeForce GT 740 vs Mobility Radeon HD 4850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GT 740 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 GeForce GT 740 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

  GeForce GT 740 Mobility Radeon HD 4850
Power consumption (TDP) 64 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI No outputs
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  • GeForce GT 740 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce GT 740 and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • GeForce GT 740 is used in Desktops, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - in Laptops.
  • GeForce GT 740 is build with Kepler architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - with Terascale 1.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GT 740 is 493 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • GeForce GT 740 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GT 740 is 4162 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 7−8 3−4
ultra / 1080p 4−5 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 16−18 14−16
medium / 1080p 8−9 5−6
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GT 740 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 50% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Full Specs

  GeForce GT 740 Mobility Radeon HD 4850
Architecture Kepler Terascale 1
Code name GK107 M98
Type Desktop Laptop
Release date 29 May 2014 9 January 2009
Pipelines 384 800
Core clock speed 993 MHz 500 MHz
Transistor count 1,270 million 956 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 31.78 20.00
Floating-point performance 762.6 gflops 800.0 gflops
Length 145 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 850 MHz
Memory bandwidth 80.19 GB/s 54.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0) 10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model 5.1 4.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA 3.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 25 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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