ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce G102M 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
7x more memory clock speed: 2800 MHz vs 400 MHz

Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz vs 400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Around 82% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 550 MHz

Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 550 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G102M

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2	NVIDIA GeForce G102M
PassMark - G2D Mark		59
PassMark - G3D Mark		168
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		890
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		890

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2	NVIDIA GeForce G102M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	M98	MCP79MX
Launch date	9 January 2009	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	1612
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 880.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1600
Texture fill rate	2x 22 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count	956 million	210 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		48
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		14 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	VGAHDMIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Bus support		PCI-E 1.0
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 89.6 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR2
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
CUDA
Power management		8.0