ATI Radeon HD 4730 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4730 and NVIDIA GeForce 6500 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: GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon HD 4730

NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 88% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 400 MHz
15x more texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
5.4x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 666 MHz

Launch date	8 June 2009 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 666 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4730
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6500

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4730	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7497
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7497
PassMark - G3D Mark		38
PassMark - G2D Mark		300

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4730	NVIDIA GeForce 6500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	RV770	NV44 A2
Launch date	8 June 2009	1 October 2005
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	579	582
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt
Transistor count	956 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB / s	10.66 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2