GeForce GTS 360M vs Mobility Radeon HD 4870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870, 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 GTS 360M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 4870, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 are only used in laptop graphics. They have 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 GeForce GTS 360M or Mobility Radeon HD 4870 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTS 360M Mobility Radeon HD 4870
Power consumption (TDP) 38 Watt
Interface MXM-II PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce GTS 360M is connected by MXM-II, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce GTS 360M and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 have maximum RAM of 1 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTS 360M is build with GT2xx architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 - with Terascale 1.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTS 360M is 886 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
  • GeForce GTS 360M is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 4870 - by 55 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 0−1 7−8
ultra / 1080p 4−5
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 1−2 16−18
medium / 1080p 0−1 8−9
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1600% more, than GeForce GTS 360M.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTS 360M Mobility Radeon HD 4870
Architecture GT2xx Terascale 1
Code name N11E-GS1 M98-XT
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 7 January 2010 9 January 2009
Pipelines 96 800
Core clock speed 1436 MHz 550 MHz
Transistor count 727 million 956 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 17.60 22.00
Floating-point performance 275.71 gflops 880.0 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 888 MHz
Memory bandwidth 57.6 GB/s 56.83 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.1 (10_1) 10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model 4.1 4.1
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores 96
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
SLI options +
HDMI +
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Laptop size large large
Gigaflops 413
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
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