AMD Cayman
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870
AMD Cayman
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
494
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Value for money (0-100)
5.81
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Terascale 1
Cayman
Code name
M98
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
9 January 2009 (12 years ago)
$17.44
Price now
$305
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Value for money
0.83
Cayman
GPU code name
M98-XT
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
800
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Core clock speed
550 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
956 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
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Texture fill rate
22.00
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Floating-point performance
880.0 gflops
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
2,640 million
Number of transistors
956 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870.

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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
888 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
56.83 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
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Technologies

The difference between AMD Cayman and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 is the additional functionality.

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PowerPlay
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1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
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PCI-E 2.0 x16
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1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports
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DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

Cheaper ($17.44 vs $305)

More pipelines (1536 vs 800)

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 55 nm)

Advantages of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

6.2% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Cayman or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 .

AMD Cayman versus ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cayman
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