ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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 4730 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 669 MHz vs 600 MHz
5x more pipelines: 320 vs 64
2.2x better floating-point performance: 428.2 gflops vs 192 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
Around 49% higher memory clock speed: 792 MHz vs 532 MHz

Core clock speed	669 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 64
Floating-point performance	428.2 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed	792 MHz vs 532 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Around 79% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 10.7 GTexel / s
Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 110 Watt

Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 10.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt vs 110 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RV670	G94
Launch date	26 December 2008	22 December 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	669 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	428.2 gflops	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	320	64
Texture fill rate	10.7 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt	95 Watt
Transistor count	666 million	505 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.34 GB / s	17.02 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	792 MHz	532 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR2