NVIDIA GeForce 320M vs ATI Radeon HD 4650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 320M and ATI Radeon HD 4650 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 320M

ATI Radeon HD 4650

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 320M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 48 Watt
Around 97% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 59 vs 30

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2010 vs 10 September 2008
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 48 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	59 vs 30

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4650

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 450 MHz
10x more pipelines: 320 vs 32
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 250 vs 210
Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1891 vs 1735
Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1891 vs 1735

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 32
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	250 vs 210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1891 vs 1735
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1891 vs 1735

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 320M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4650

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

210

250

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1735

1891

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1735

1891

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 320M	ATI Radeon HD 4650
PassMark - G3D Mark	210	250
PassMark - G2D Mark	59	30
Geekbench - OpenCL	2474
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1735	1891
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1735	1891

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 320M	ATI Radeon HD 4650
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	MCP89	RV730
Launch date	1 April 2010	10 September 2008
Place in performance rating	1582	1586
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	32	320
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	48 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	514 million
Floating-point performance		384.0 gflops
Texture fill rate		19.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		193 mm
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Shared memory	yes
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1400 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3