ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

4.3x more texture fill rate: 20.12 GTexel / s vs 4.71 GTexel / s
50x more pipelines: 800 vs 16
17.9x better floating-point performance: 804.8 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 800 MHz

Texture fill rate	20.12 GTexel / s vs 4.71 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 16
Floating-point performance	804.8 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2

Around 17% higher core clock speed: 589 MHz vs 503 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm

Core clock speed	589 MHz vs 503 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla 2.0
Code name	M98	GT218
Launch date	28 August 2009	24 August 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	503 MHz	589 MHz
Floating-point performance	804.8 gflops	44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	800	16
Texture fill rate	20.12 GTexel / s	4.71 GTexel / s
Transistor count	956 million	260 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		31 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	54.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2