AMD Radeon HD 6430M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6430M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 106 vs 64

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 11 November 2008
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	106 vs 64

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 602 MHz vs 480 MHz
10x more texture fill rate: 38.5 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 192 vs 160
3x better floating-point performance: 462.3 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
5.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 986 vs 193

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	602 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	38.5 GTexel / s vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Pipelines	192 vs 160
Floating-point performance	462.3 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	986 vs 193

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6430M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

193

986

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

106

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
PassMark - G3D Mark	193	986
PassMark - G2D Mark	106	64
Geekbench - OpenCL		15302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6430M	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Seymour	GT200B
Launch date	4 January 2011	11 November 2008
Place in performance rating	1311	1312
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,799
Price now		$149.99
Value for money (0-100)		8.67
Technical info
Core clock speed	480 MHz	602 MHz
Floating-point performance	153.6 gflops	462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	160	192
Texture fill rate	3.84 GTexel / s	38.5 GTexel / s
Transistor count	370 million	1,400 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		150 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0