Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs Radeon HD 4830

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 4830. 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 5850 and Radeon HD 4830. 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 5850 is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Mobility Radeon HD 5850 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 5850 here:

Main Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 4830
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 95 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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  • Radeon HD 4830 has 216% more power consumption, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon HD 4830 has 511 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 5850.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is used in Laptops, and Radeon HD 4830 - in Desktops.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 4830 - with TeraScale.
  • Core clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 50 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 4830.
  • Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 4830 - by 55 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 is 200 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 4830.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 5−6 0−1
ultra / 1080p 3−4 0−1
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 14−16 10−12
medium / 1080p 7−8 2−3
The average gaming FPS of Mobility Radeon HD 5850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 83% more, than Radeon HD 4830.

Full Specs

  Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 4830
Architecture Terascale 2 TeraScale
Code name Broadway-PRO RV770
Type Laptop Desktop
Release date 7 January 2010 21 October 2008
Pipelines 800 640
Core clock speed 625 MHz 575 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 956 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 18.40
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 736.0 gflops
Length 246 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 57.6 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model 5.0 4.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
Laptop size large
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