ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

NVIDIA GeForce 9400

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 17% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 580 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 149 vs 126
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1697 vs 800
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1697 vs 800

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 January 2009 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 580 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	149 vs 126
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1697 vs 800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1697 vs 800

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400

3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 61 vs 19

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	61 vs 19

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9400

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

126

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1697

800

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1697

800

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
PassMark - G3D Mark	149	126
PassMark - G2D Mark	19	61
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1697	800
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1697	800

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570	NVIDIA GeForce 9400
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	M92	MCP7A
Launch date	9 January 2009	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1629	1631
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	580 MHz
Floating-point performance	108.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	5.44 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	MXM-II	PCI
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 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