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    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 vs Quadro M4000M

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro M4000M. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro M4000M. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro M4000M are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro M4000M 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 4870 or Quadro M4000M here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Laptops
    Quadro M4000M Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Quadro M4000M
    Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors None
    Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Quadro M4000M uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
    • Quadro M4000M has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is used in Laptops, and Quadro M4000M - in Mobile workstations.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Quadro M4000M - with Maxwell.
    • Core clock speed of Quadro M4000M is 425 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Quadro M4000M - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Quadro M4000M is 4124 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 7−8 35−40
    ultra / 1080p 4−5 21−24
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
    4K / 2160p − 10−11
    low / 720p 16−18 60−65
    medium / 1080p 8−9 40−45
    The average gaming FPS of Quadro M4000M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 355% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Quadro M4000M
    Architecture Terascale 1 Maxwell
    Code name M98-XT GM204
    Type Laptop Mobile workstation
    Release date 9 January 2009 2 October 2015
    Pipelines 800 1,280
    Core clock speed 550 MHz 975 MHz
    Boost Clock 1013 MHz
    Transistor count 956 million 5,200 million
    Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 22.00 78.00
    Floating-point performance 880.0 gflops 2,496 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 888 MHz 5012 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 56.83 GB/s 160 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 12
    Shader Model 4.1 5.0
    OpenGL 3.3 4.5
    OpenCL 1.1 1.2
    Vulkan N/A 1.1.126
    CUDA 5.2
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 251 Mh/s
    Laptop size large large
    Optimus +
    Display Port 1.2
    3D Vision Pro +
    Mosaic +
    nView Display Management +
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