ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro M7740

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition and ATI FirePro M7740 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 800 vs 640
Pipelines 800 vs 640

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7740

  • Around 29% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 503 MHz
  • Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 20.8 GTexel / s vs 20.12 GTexel / s
  • Around 3% better floating-point performance: 832.0 gflops vs 804.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 99% higher memory clock speed: 3384 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 503 MHz
Texture fill rate 20.8 GTexel / s vs 20.12 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 832.0 gflops vs 804.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 3384 MHz vs 1700 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI FirePro M7740

Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition ATI FirePro M7740
PassMark - G3D Mark 665
PassMark - G2D Mark 415
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3309

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition ATI FirePro M7740

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale TeraScale
Code name M98 M97
Launch date 28 August 2009 4 August 2009
Place in performance rating not rated 600
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 503 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 804.8 gflops 832.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 800 640
Texture fill rate 20.12 GTexel / s 20.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count 956 million 826 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.1
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 54.4 GB / s 54.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1700 MHz 3384 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0