ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 576 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
9.1x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 182 Watt

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 576 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 182 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

8.6x more texture fill rate: 41.5 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 216 vs 80
5.6x better floating-point performance: 536.5 gflops vs 96 gflops
Around 75% higher maximum memory size: 896 MB vs 512 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 1998 MHz vs 800 MHz

Texture fill rate	41.5 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	216 vs 80
Floating-point performance	536.5 gflops vs 96 gflops
Maximum memory size	896 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1998 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla 2.0
Code name	RV710	GT200
Launch date	30 September 2008	16 September 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	576 MHz
Floating-point performance	96 gflops	536.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	80	216
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	41.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	182 Watt
Transistor count	242 million	1,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x1	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	896 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	111.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	448 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1998 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3