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
GPU 1
GPU 2
151
836
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
149
66
Name NVIDIA GeForce 305M ATI Radeon HD 4830
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

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GT218 RV770
Launch date 10 January 2010 21 October 2008
Place in performance rating 1327 1330
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $130

Technical info

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

Display Connectors DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

DirectX 10.1 10.1
OpenGL 2.1 3.3

Memory

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

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0