Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce 9800 GTX+
Summary
Radeon HD 4850
117%
GeForce 9800 GTX+
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850 |
| Around 17% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX+ |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4850
The Radeon HD 4850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 | | GeForce 9800 GTX+ | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV770 (RV770 PRO) | vs | G92B (G92-420-B1) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 256 mm² | vs | 260 mm² |
| Transistors | 956 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 128 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 625 MHz | vs | 738 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 | | GeForce 9800 GTX+ | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 993 MHz
1986 MHz effective | vs | 1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4850 | | GeForce 9800 GTX+ | |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | vs | 141 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Jun 2008 | vs | 16 Jan 2009 |
Radeon HD 4850
10.00 GP/s
GeForce 9800 GTX+
11.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
25.00 GT/s
GeForce 9800 GTX+
47.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
63.60 GB/s
GeForce 9800 GTX+
70.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
1000.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 9800 GTX+
470.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
1890
GeForce 9800 GTX+
1610
Points (higher is better)