ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 vs NVIDIA GeForce G 102M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and NVIDIA GeForce G 102M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

NVIDIA GeForce G 102M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

Around 44% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 450 MHz
40x more pipelines: 640 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines	640 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860	NVIDIA GeForce G 102M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	G9x
Code name	M97	MCP75
Launch date	3 March 2009	3 March 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	832.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	640	16
Texture fill rate	20.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	826 million	282 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2, DDR3
Shared memory	0	1
Technologies
CrossFire
Powerplay