ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7350 LE

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 and NVIDIA GeForce 7350 LE 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

NVIDIA GeForce 7350 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 450 MHz
12.2x more texture fill rate: 22 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 1776 MHz vs 800 MHz
9.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 720 vs 74
Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 416 vs 281

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 January 2009 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	22 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1776 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	720 vs 74
PassMark - G2D Mark	416 vs 281

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7350 LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

720

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

416

281

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870	NVIDIA GeForce 7350 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	720	74
PassMark - G2D Mark	416	281
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870	NVIDIA GeForce 7350 LE
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M98	G72
Launch date	9 January 2009	22 March 2006
Place in performance rating	584	586
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	880.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	22 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	956 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	56.8 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1776 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
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