GeForce GTX 680M vs Mobility Radeon HD 4850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between GeForce GTX 680M 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 GTX 680M stacks up against Mobility Radeon HD 4850, check out specs charts below.

GeForce GTX 680M and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: GeForce GTX 680M and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 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 GTX 680M or Mobility Radeon HD 4850 here:

Main Specs

  GeForce GTX 680M Mobility Radeon HD 4850
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • GeForce GTX 680M is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • GeForce GTX 680M has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • GeForce GTX 680M is build with Kepler architecture, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - with Terascale 1.
  • Core clock speed of GeForce GTX 680M is 220 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • GeForce GTX 680M is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 - by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of GeForce GTX 680M is 950 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 16−18 3−4
ultra / 1080p 9−10 1−2
QHD / 1440p 4−5 0−1
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 30−35 14−16
medium / 1080p 20−22 5−6
The average gaming FPS of GeForce GTX 680M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 233% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Full Specs

  GeForce GTX 680M Mobility Radeon HD 4850
Architecture Kepler Terascale 1
Code name N13E-GTX M98
Type Laptop Laptop
Release date 4 June 2012 9 January 2009
Pipelines 1344 800
Core clock speed 720 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 758 MHz
Transistor count 3,540 million 956 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 80.6 billion/sec 20.00
Floating-point performance 2,038 gflops 800.0 gflops
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 850 MHz
Memory bandwidth 115.2 GB/s 54.4 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 12 API 10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model 5.1 4.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan 1.1.126 N/A
CUDA +
CUDA cores 1344
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
SLI options +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 100 Mh/s
Laptop size large large
Optimus +
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