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    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 vs Radeon HD 8730M

    Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon HD 8730M. 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 Radeon HD 8730M. 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 Radeon HD 8730M are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon HD 8730M 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 Radeon HD 8730M here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Laptops
    Radeon HD 8730M Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Radeon HD 8730M
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
    Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon HD 8730M uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
    • Radeon HD 8730M has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Radeon HD 8730M - with GCN.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 8730M is 100 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 8730M - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 8730M is 1112 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 7−8 0−1
    ultra / 1080p 4−5 −
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
    low / 720p 16−18 1−2
    medium / 1080p 8−9 0−1
    The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 1600% more, than Radeon HD 8730M.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Radeon HD 8730M
    Architecture Terascale 1 GCN
    Code name M98-XT Mars
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 9 January 2009 16 November 2012
    Pipelines 800 384
    Core clock speed 550 MHz 650 MHz
    Boost Clock 700 MHz
    Transistor count 956 million 950 million
    Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 22.00 16.80
    Floating-point performance 880.0 gflops 537.6 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 888 MHz 2000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 56.83 GB/s 32 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 12 (11_1)
    Shader Model 4.1 5.1
    OpenGL 3.3 4.6
    OpenCL 1.1 1.2
    Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
    Laptop size large medium sized
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