NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 7.6 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 50 vs 20
Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 156 vs 142

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 9 January 2009
Texture fill rate	7.6 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	50 vs 20
PassMark - G3D Mark	156 vs 142

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

Around 15% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 589 MHz
Around 67% higher pipelines: 80 vs 48
Around 3% better floating-point performance: 108.8 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 60% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1697 vs 1062
Around 60% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1697 vs 1062

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 589 MHz
Pipelines	80 vs 48
Floating-point performance	108.8 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1697 vs 1062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1697 vs 1062

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

156

142

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1062

1697

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1062

1697

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
PassMark - G2D Mark	50	20
PassMark - G3D Mark	156	142
Geekbench - OpenCL	4683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1062	1697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1062	1697

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 315 OEM	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT218	M92
Launch date	22 February 2011	9 January 2009
Place in performance rating	1631	1634
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	589 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	105.6 gflops	108.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	48	80
Texture fill rate	7.6 GTexel / s	5.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	242 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay