NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 28% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 2x 800
3.4x better floating-point performance: 6,738 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 55 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
9.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10465 vs 1132
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 603 vs 542

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 August 2016 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 625 MHz
Pipelines	2048 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance	6,738 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	10465 vs 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	603 vs 542

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 210.6 GTexel / s
248.8x more memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Texture fill rate	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 210.6 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1990 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

10465

1132

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

603

542

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	10465	1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	603	542
Geekbench - OpenCL	44918
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	150.951
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1718.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	710.366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5530

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale
Code name	GP104B	R700
Launch date	15 August 2016	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$389.99	$420
Place in performance rating	312	244
Price now	$359.99
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	43.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1645 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	625 MHz
CUDA cores	1920
Floating-point performance	6,738 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	94 °C
Pipelines	2048	2x 800
Texture fill rate	210.6 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	7,200 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB / s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8 GB/s	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready