NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs ATI Radeon HD 4830
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 305M and ATI Radeon HD 4830 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
- 2x more core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 575 MHz
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
- 6.8x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 95 Watt
- 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 66
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 10 January 2010 vs 21 October 2008 |
Core clock speed | 1150 MHz vs 575 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 55 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 14 Watt vs 95 Watt |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 149 vs 66 |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4830
- 4.4x more texture fill rate: 18.4 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
- 40x more pipelines: 640 vs 16
- 20x better floating-point performance: 736.0 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
- 5.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 836 vs 151
Specifications (specs) | |
Texture fill rate | 18.4 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 640 vs 16 |
Floating-point performance | 736.0 gflops vs 36.8 gflops |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 836 vs 151 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 305M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4830
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce 305M | ATI Radeon HD 4830 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 151 | 836 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 149 | 66 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 1987 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3354 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3354 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce 305M | ATI Radeon HD 4830 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Tesla 2.0 | TeraScale |
Code name | GT218 | RV770 |
Launch date | 10 January 2010 | 21 October 2008 |
Place in performance rating | 1326 | 1329 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Launch price (MSRP) | $130 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 1150 MHz | 575 MHz |
CUDA cores | 16 | |
Floating-point performance | 36.8 gflops | 736.0 gflops |
Gigaflops | 55 | |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 55 nm |
Pipelines | 16 | 640 |
Texture fill rate | 4.2 GTexel / s | 18.4 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 14 Watt | 95 Watt |
Transistor count | 260 million | 956 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
HDMI | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Multi monitor support | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Length | 246 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.1 | 10.1 |
OpenGL | 2.1 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Memory bandwidth | 11.2 GB / s | 57.6 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory type | GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3 | GDDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | |
Technologies |
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CUDA | ||
HybridPower | ||
Power management | 8.0 |