ATI Radeon HD 4730 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4730 and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
  • Around 85% higher texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 13 billion / sec
  • 10x more pipelines: 640 vs 64
  • 7.5x better floating-point performance: 960.0 gflops vs 128 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
Launch date 8 June 2009 vs 3 March 2009
Texture fill rate 24 GTexel / s vs 13 billion / sec
Pipelines 640 vs 64
Floating-point performance 960.0 gflops vs 128 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 750 MHz
  • 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 110 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 750 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 110 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4730
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Name ATI Radeon HD 4730 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7497
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7497
PassMark - G2D Mark 407
PassMark - G3D Mark 504

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 4730 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Code name RV770 G94
Launch date 8 June 2009 3 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $79
Place in performance rating 586 372
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 750 MHz 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 960.0 gflops 128 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 640 64
Texture fill rate 24 GTexel / s 13 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 956 million 505 million
CUDA cores 64
Gigaflops 192

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 57.6 GB / s 51 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
MXM 3.0 Type-B
PCI-E 2.0
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
PureVideo HD