ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
17.1x lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 120 Watt
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 330 vs 134

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 1 July 2009
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt vs 120 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	330 vs 134

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

Around 35% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 500 MHz
9.5x more texture fill rate: 37.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher pipelines: 112 vs 80
4.5x better floating-point performance: 362.9 gflops vs 80 gflops
Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1600 MHz
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 556 vs 181
Around 93% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 1733
Around 93% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 1733

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	112 vs 80
Floating-point performance	362.9 gflops vs 80 gflops
Memory clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	556 vs 181
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353 vs 1733
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353 vs 1733

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

181

556

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

330

134

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1733

3353

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1733

3353

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	181	556
PassMark - G2D Mark	330	134
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	7.489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	904
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	904
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1733	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1733	3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Park	G92B
Launch date	7 January 2010	1 July 2009
Place in performance rating	1156	1158
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	675 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops	362.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	80	112
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	37.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	2200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5?	GDDR3
Shared memory	0