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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

40nm RV740 core (the desktop version is called HD 4750) that features less shader cores than the Mobility HD 4850 (640 like the desktop HD 4830) and only a 128 bit memory bus. Because of the high core clock and GDDR5 memory, the card should perform pretty well.

A first review of the desktop HD 4750 (which could be a bit higher clocked than the Mobility Radeon HD 4860 according to the tech specs), the 4750 achieved 6000 points in the GPU test of 3DMark Vantage. This would be a better score than the Geforce 280M in our review scored.

AMD also published a benchmark comparison between Mobile HD 4850 and HD 4860 where the 4860 performed a few percent points better in 3DMark06 in 1920x1200.

 

At the Cebit 2009, Asus showed us a 15" laptop with a Mobility Radeon Hd 4860 in it which should hit the market at the end of Q2 2009 (hopefully). Our press contact stated that he thinks that the HD 4860 should perform a bit worse than the HD 4850. In the presented pre-production sample there was only a "Mobility Radeon 4500 Series" graphics card installed that scored only a bit above 2000 points in 3DMark06.

The features of the HD 4860 should be comparable to the HD 4850 (regarding Avivo HD video functions, Powerplay and the integrated sound chip for HDMI output).

ManufacturerATI
SeriesMobility Radeon HD 4800
CodenameM97-XT
Pipelines640 - unified
Core Speed *650 MHz
Shader Speed *650 MHz
Memory Speed *1000 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory
Shared Memoryno
DirectXDirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
Transistors826 Million
technology40 nm
FeaturesPowerplay, CrossFireX support, 
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement03.03.2009
Information832 GFlops Computing Power
Link to Manufacturer Pagehttp://ati.amd.com/products/mobilityrade...
* The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

benchmarks

No benchmarks found for this graphics card.

Game Benchmarks

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Benchmarks by AMD

AMD published some relative benchmarks of the new HD 4870 in relation to the old HD 3870. The benchmarks were conducted in 1920x1200 with 4xAA and 8xAF.

Relative performance of the HD 4870 to the HD 3870 conducted with a desktop Phenom x4 9950 in 1920x1200 4xAA, 8xAF
Relative performance of the HD 4870 to the HD 3870 conducted with a desktop Phenom x4 9950 in 1920x1200 4xAA, 8xAF

:: No reviews found for this graphics card.

 

Author: Klaus Hinum (Update: 2009-09-24)