Mobility Radeon HD 4870 vs Quadro FX 4800

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro FX 4800. 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 FX 4800. 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.

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4870 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 4870 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Quadro FX 4800
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1536 MB
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
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  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro FX 4800 has 1535 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is used in Laptops, and Quadro FX 4800 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Quadro FX 4800 - with Tesla 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro FX 4800 is 52 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Quadro FX 4800 are manufactured by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro FX 4800 is 712 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 7−8 2−3
ultra / 1080p 4−5 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 16−18 12−14
medium / 1080p 8−9 3−4
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 4870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 83% more, than Quadro FX 4800.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Quadro FX 4800
Architecture Terascale 1 Tesla 2.0
Code name M98-XT GT200B
Type Laptop Workstation
Release date 9 January 2009 11 November 2008
Pipelines 800 192
Core clock speed 550 MHz 602 MHz
Transistor count 956 million 1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 22.00 38.53
Floating-point performance 880.0 gflops 462.3 gflops
Length 267 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 888 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth 56.83 GB/s 76.8 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model 4.1 4.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 1.3
Laptop size large
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