ATI Radeon HD 5630 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5630 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 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 5630

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5630

3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
Around 34% better floating-point performance: 416.0 gflops vs 311.04 gflops
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 39 Watt vs 65 Watt

Pipelines	320 vs 96
Floating-point performance	416.0 gflops vs 311.04 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 810 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 12.96 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Around 71% higher memory clock speed: 1334 MHz vs 780 MHz

Core clock speed	810 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	12.96 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1334 MHz vs 780 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5630	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi
Code name	Redwood	GF108
Launch date	15 February 2011	9 February 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	810 MHz
Floating-point performance	416.0 gflops	311.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	320	96
Texture fill rate	10.4 GTexel / s	12.96 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	585 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	165 mm	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.48 GB / s	21.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	780 MHz	1334 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR3