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    Mobility Radeon HD 4830 vs Radeon R9 380

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4830 and Radeon R9 380, 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 Mobility Radeon HD 4830 stacks up against Radeon R9 380, check out specs charts below.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 4830 is a Laptop Graphics Card

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4830 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 4830 here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 4830 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4830 Radeon R9 380
    Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors 2 x 6-pin
    Memory type GDDR3, DDR3 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 4830 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R9 380 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
    • Radeon R9 380 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4830.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4830 is used in Laptops, and Radeon R9 380 - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4830 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Radeon R9 380 - with GCN.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4830 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 380 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon R9 380 is 270 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4830.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 0−1 35−40
    ultra / 1080p 0−1 21−24
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
    4K / 2160p − 10−11
    low / 720p 10−11 60−65
    medium / 1080p 1−2 40−45
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 380 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 766% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4830.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4830 Radeon R9 380
    Architecture Terascale 1 GCN
    Code name M97 Tonga Pro
    Type Laptop Desktop
    Release date 3 March 2009 26 June 2015
    Pipelines 640 1792
    Core clock speed 550 MHz
    Boost Clock 970 MHz
    Transistor count 826 million 5,000 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 17.60 108.6
    Floating-point performance 704.0 gflops 3,476 gflops
    Length 221 mm
    Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 700 MHz 970 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 44.8 GB/s 182.4 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 10.1 (10_1)
    Shader Model 4.1 6.3
    OpenGL 3.3 4.5
    OpenCL 1.1 2.0
    Vulkan N/A +
    Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.48 kh/s
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    HDMI +
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 404 Mh/s
    Laptop size large
    Eyefinity +
    HD3D +
    PowerTune +
    TrueAudio +
    ZeroCore +
    Mantle +
    Design reference
    Bridgeless CrossFire +
    Number of Eyefinity displays 6
    DisplayPort support +
    CrossFire +
    VCE +
    DDMA audio +
    Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.66 Gh/s
    Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 18 Mh/s
    Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 168.45 Sol/s
    Compute units 28
    Form factor full height / full length / dual slot
    High bandwidth memory (HBM) -
    LiquidVR +
    FRTC +
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