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    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 vs Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL, 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 4870 stacks up against Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL, check out specs charts below.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL 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 Pro WX Vega M GL here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Laptops
    Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
    Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 IGP
    Memory type GDDR5 HBM2
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL uses IGP interface.
    • Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL has 3 GB more memory, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is used in Laptops, and Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL - in Mobile workstations.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL - with Vega.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL is 381 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL - by 14 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL is 512 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 7−8 35−40
    ultra / 1080p 4−5 21−24
    QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
    4K / 2160p − 10−11
    low / 720p 16−18 60−65
    medium / 1080p 8−9 40−45
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 355% more, than Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4870 Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
    Architecture Terascale 1 Vega
    Code name M98-XT Vega Kaby Lake-G
    Type Laptop Mobile workstation
    Release date 9 January 2009 7 January 2018
    Pipelines 800 1280
    Core clock speed 550 MHz 931 MHz
    Boost Clock 1011 MHz
    Transistor count 956 million 5,000 million
    Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 14 nm
    Texture fill rate 22.00 80.88
    Floating-point performance 880.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 1024 Bit
    Memory clock speed 888 MHz 1400 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 56.83 GB/s 179.2 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 12 (12_0)
    Shader Model 4.1 6.4
    OpenGL 3.3 4.6
    OpenCL 1.1 2.0
    Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
    Laptop size large medium sized
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