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.

 

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
38
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 543 545
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