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    Mobility Radeon HD 4850 vs Radeon R9 M385

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon R9 M385, 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 4850 stacks up against Radeon R9 M385, check out specs charts below.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon R9 M385 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon R9 M385 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 Mobility Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon R9 M385 here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Laptops
    Radeon R9 M385 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Radeon R9 M385
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
    Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R9 M385 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
    • Radeon R9 M385 has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Radeon R9 M385 - with GCN.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 M385 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon R9 M385 is 650 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 3−4 10−12
    ultra / 1080p 1−2 6−7
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 1−2
    low / 720p 14−16 24−27
    medium / 1080p 5−6 12−14
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 M385 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 133% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Radeon R9 M385
    Architecture Terascale 1 GCN
    Code name M98 Strato
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 9 January 2009 16 June 2015
    Pipelines 800 896
    Core clock speed 500 MHz
    Boost Clock 1100 MHz
    Transistor count 956 million 2,080 million
    Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.00 56.00
    Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 1,792 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 850 MHz 1500 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 54.4 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 10.1 (10_1)
    Shader Model 4.1 6.3
    OpenGL 3.3 4.4
    OpenCL 1.1 Not Listed
    Vulkan N/A
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    Laptop size large medium sized
    Eyefinity +
    HD3D +
    PowerTune +
    DualGraphics +
    TrueAudio +
    ZeroCore +
    Switchable graphics +
    Mantle +
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