AMD Radeon HD 8750M vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8750M and ATI Radeon HD 4850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8750M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1986 MHz
  • Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1022 vs 941
  • 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 200 vs 75
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 February 2013 vs 25 June 2008
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1986 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1022 vs 941
PassMark - G2D Mark 200 vs 75
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 vs 3344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 vs 3344

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850

  • Around 1% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 620 MHz
  • Around 34% higher texture fill rate: 25 GTexel / s vs 18.6 GTexel / s
  • 2.1x more pipelines: 800 vs 384
  • Around 68% better floating-point performance: 1,000.0 gflops vs 595.2 gflops
Core clock speed 625 MHz vs 620 MHz
Texture fill rate 25 GTexel / s vs 18.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 800 vs 384
Floating-point performance 1,000.0 gflops vs 595.2 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8750M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1022
941
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
200
75
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3344
Name AMD Radeon HD 8750M ATI Radeon HD 4850
PassMark - G3D Mark 1022 941
PassMark - G2D Mark 200 75
Geekbench - OpenCL 5884
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.274
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 271.177
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 24.834
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 70.596
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1734
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2221
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 3344
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1734
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2221
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 3344
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8750M ATI Radeon HD 4850

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale
Code name Mars RV770
Design AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date 26 February 2013 25 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1285 1288
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $199

Technical info

Boost clock speed 775 MHz
Compute units 6
Core clock speed 620 MHz 625 MHz
Floating-point performance 595.2 gflops 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 384 800
Texture fill rate 18.6 GTexel / s 25 GTexel / s
Transistor count 1,040 million 956 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Length 246 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 64 GB / s 63.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 1986 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0