ATI Radeon HD 4520 vs NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4520 and NVIDIA GeForce 310 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 4520

NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4520

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 589 MHz
Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 4.8 GTexel / s vs 4.71 GTexel / s
5x more pipelines: 80 vs 16
2.1x better floating-point performance: 96 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 31 Watt
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 666 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s vs 4.71 GTexel / s
Pipelines	80 vs 16
Floating-point performance	96 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 31 Watt
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 666 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm

Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4520
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4520	NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM
PassMark - G2D Mark		42
PassMark - G3D Mark		127
Geekbench - OpenCL		2724
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1052
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1052

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4520	NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla 2.0
Code name	RV710	GT218
Launch date	2 December 2009	27 November 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	1645
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	589 MHz
Floating-point performance	96 gflops	44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	16
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	4.71 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	31 Watt
Transistor count	242 million	260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	5.33 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR2