ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830 and NVIDIA GeForce 6500 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 4830

NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 400 MHz
11x more texture fill rate: 17.6 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
4.2x more memory clock speed: 2800 MHz vs 666 MHz
13.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 512 vs 38

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 March 2009 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz vs 666 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	512 vs 38

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 300 vs 285

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	300 vs 285

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

512

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

285

300

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
PassMark - G3D Mark	512	38
PassMark - G2D Mark	285	300

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M97	NV44 A2
Launch date	3 March 2009	1 October 2005
Place in performance rating	543	546
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	704.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	17.6 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	826 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	44.8 GB / s	10.66 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CrossFire
Powerplay