NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

Around 6% higher core clock speed: 503 MHz vs 475 MHz
5.3x more texture fill rate: 20.12 GTexel / s vs 3.8 GTexel / s
50x more pipelines: 800 vs 16
22.9x better floating-point performance: 804.8 gflops vs 35.2 gflops
2.1x more memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 800 MHz

Core clock speed	503 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	20.12 GTexel / s vs 3.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 16
Floating-point performance	804.8 gflops vs 35.2 gflops
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT216	M98
Launch date	4 September 2009	28 August 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	503 MHz
Floating-point performance	35.2 gflops	804.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	16	800
Texture fill rate	3.8 GTexel / s	20.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3