Mobility Radeon HD 4850 vs Tesla C2050

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Tesla C2050, 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 Tesla C2050, 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

  Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Tesla C2050
Power consumption (TDP) 238 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 3 GB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI
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  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Tesla C2050 has 2 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is used in Laptops, and Tesla C2050 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Tesla C2050 - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Tesla C2050 is 74 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Tesla C2050 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla C2050 is 2150 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 3−4 18−20
ultra / 1080p 1−2 10−11
QHD / 1440p 0−1 4−5
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 14−16 35−40
medium / 1080p 5−6 21−24
The average gaming FPS of Tesla C2050 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 266% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Tesla C2050
Architecture Terascale 1 Fermi
Code name M98 GF100
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 9 January 2009 25 July 2011
Pipelines 800 448
Core clock speed 500 MHz 574 MHz
Transistor count 956 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 32.14
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 1,030.4 gflops
Length 248 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 850 MHz 3000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 54.4 GB/s 144.0 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 4.1 5.1
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 90 Mh/s
Laptop size large
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