ATI Radeon HD 4770 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4770 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 4770

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4770

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 76% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
36.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 905 vs 25

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 April 2009 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	905 vs 25

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 234 vs 88

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	234 vs 88

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4770
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

905

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

234

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4770	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
PassMark - G3D Mark	905	25
PassMark - G2D Mark	88	234
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	8618
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	8618

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4770	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	RV740	C61
Launch date	28 April 2009	11 October 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$109
Place in performance rating	782	783
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt
Transistor count	826 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	203 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
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5