NVIDIA GeForce 305M vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 305M and ATI Radeon HD 4870 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 305M

ATI Radeon HD 4870

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 305M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 750 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
10.7x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 150 Watt
3.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 44

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 January 2010 vs 25 June 2008
Core clock speed	1150 MHz vs 750 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	149 vs 44

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4870

7.1x more texture fill rate: 30 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
50x more pipelines: 800 vs 16
32.6x better floating-point performance: 1,200.0 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
9.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1384 vs 151

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	30 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 16
Floating-point performance	1,200.0 gflops vs 36.8 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1384 vs 151

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 305M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4870

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

151

1384

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

149

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 305M	ATI Radeon HD 4870
PassMark - G3D Mark	151	1384
PassMark - G2D Mark	149	44
Geekbench - OpenCL	1987
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3346
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3346

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 305M	ATI Radeon HD 4870
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT218	RV770
Launch date	10 January 2010	25 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1330	1331
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Technical info
Core clock speed	1150 MHz	750 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	36.8 gflops	1,200.0 gflops
Gigaflops	55
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	16	800
Texture fill rate	4.2 GTexel / s	30 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	150 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		250 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR2, GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory clock speed		3600 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0