Mobility Radeon HD 4850 vs Quadro M500M

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Quadro M500M. 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 4850 and Quadro M500M. 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 4850 and Quadro M500M are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Quadro M500M 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 Quadro M500M here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Quadro M500M
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Quadro M500M uses MXM-A (3.0) interface.
  • Quadro M500M has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is used in Laptops, and Quadro M500M - in Mobile workstations.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Quadro M500M - with Maxwell.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro M500M is 529 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Quadro M500M - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro M500M is 3154 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 3−4 0−1
ultra / 1080p 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 12−14
medium / 1080p 5−6 3−4
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 4850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 25% more, than Quadro M500M.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Quadro M500M
Architecture Terascale 1 Maxwell
Code name M98 GM108
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Release date 9 January 2009 15 December 2015
Pipelines 800 384
Core clock speed 500 MHz 1029 MHz
Boost Clock 1124 MHz
Transistor count 956 million
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 17.98
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 863.2 gflops
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 850 MHz 4004 MHz
Memory bandwidth 54.4 GB/s 14.4 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 5.0
Laptop size large large
Optimus +
nView Display Management +
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