ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 250 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 31 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 2x 128 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 500 MHz
4.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 175 vs 38

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2010 vs 9 March 2009
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 31 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 2x 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	175 vs 38

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

5.5x more texture fill rate: 2x 2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 358 vs 353

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	2x 2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	358 vs 353

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

175

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

353

358

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
PassMark - G3D Mark	175	38
PassMark - G2D Mark	353	358

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M92	NV43 A4
Launch date	5 May 2010	9 March 2009
Place in performance rating	443	444
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$96.99
Price now		$93.61
Value for money (0-100)		0.53
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	2x 2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	31 Watt
Transistor count	242 million	146 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DMS-59
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		187 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2x 128 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	2x 8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	2x 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2	GDDR3
Shared memory	0