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    Mobility Radeon HD 4850 vs Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Mobility Radeon HD 4850 stacks up against Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire, check out specs charts below.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire 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 Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Laptops
    Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
    Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2x2 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs
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    • Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire has 1 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire - with Terascale 2.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is 180 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire - by 40 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is 50 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 3−4 21−24
    ultra / 1080p 1−2 12−14
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 7−8
    4K / 2160p − 5−6
    low / 720p 14−16 40−45
    medium / 1080p 5−6 24−27
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 316% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
    Architecture Terascale 1 Terascale 2
    Code name M98 Blackcomb XT
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 9 January 2009 6 January 2011
    Pipelines 800 1920
    Core clock speed 500 MHz 680 MHz
    Transistor count 956 million 2x1700 Million
    Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.00
    Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 850 MHz 900 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 54.4 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 10.1 (10_1) DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
    Shader Model 4.1
    OpenGL 3.3
    OpenCL 1.1
    Vulkan N/A
    Laptop size large large
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