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    Mobility Radeon HD 4850 vs Radeon R7 M270DX

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Mobility Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon R7 M270DX, 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 R7 M270DX, check out specs charts below.
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    Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is a Laptop Graphics Card

    Note: Mobility Radeon HD 4850 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 4850 here:

    Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Radeon R7 M270DX
    Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 IGP
    Memory type GDDR3 System Shared
    Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R7 M270DX uses IGP interface.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is used in Laptops, and Radeon R7 M270DX - in Desktops.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is build with Terascale 1 architecture, and Radeon R7 M270DX - with GCN 3.0.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon R7 M270DX is 400 MHz higher, than Mobility Radeon HD 4850.
    • Mobility Radeon HD 4850 is manufactured by 55 nm process technology, and Radeon R7 M270DX - by 28 nm process technology.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 3−4 2−3
    ultra / 1080p 1−2 0−1
    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 33% more, than Radeon R7 M270DX.

    Full Specs

      Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Radeon R7 M270DX
    Architecture Terascale 1 GCN 3.0
    Code name M98 Topaz
    Type Laptop Desktop
    Release date 9 January 2009 11 June 2014
    Pipelines 800 384
    Core clock speed 500 MHz 900 MHz
    Boost Clock 940 MHz
    Transistor count 956 million 1,550 million
    Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 20.00 22.56
    Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit
    Memory clock speed 850 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 54.4 GB/s
    Shared memory -
    DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 12 (12_0)
    Shader Model 4.1 6.3
    OpenGL 3.3 4.6
    OpenCL 1.1 2.0
    Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
    Laptop size large
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