ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM

  • Around 34% higher core clock speed: 669 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 34% higher texture fill rate: 10.7 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
  • 10x more pipelines: 320 vs 32
  • 5.4x better floating-point performance: 428.2 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Core clock speed 669 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 10.7 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 320 vs 32
Floating-point performance 428.2 gflops vs 80 gflops
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

  • 7.9x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 110 Watt
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 1584 MHz vs 792 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 110 Watt
Memory clock speed 1584 MHz vs 792 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Code name RV670 G96C
Launch date 26 December 2008 12 December 2008
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 669 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 428.2 gflops 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 320 32
Texture fill rate 10.7 GTexel / s 8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt 14 Watt
Transistor count 666 million 314 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm

API support

DirectX 10.0 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.34 GB / s 25.34 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 792 MHz 1584 MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3

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