ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350 and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i 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.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 148 vs 129
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 369 vs 367

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 January 2009 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	148 vs 129
PassMark - G2D Mark	369 vs 367

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

148

129

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

369

367

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
PassMark - G3D Mark	148	129
PassMark - G2D Mark	369	367

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	M92	MCP79MX
Launch date	9 January 2009	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	438	441
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	72 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	3.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	242 million	210 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		40 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay