NVIDIA GeForce 705M vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 705M and ATI Radeon HD 4860 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 705M

ATI Radeon HD 4860

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 705M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 738 MHz vs 700 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
8.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 130 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	27 September 2013 vs 9 September 2009
Core clock speed	738 MHz vs 700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 130 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4860

3.8x more texture fill rate: 22.4 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s
13.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 48
6.3x better floating-point performance: 896.0 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 3000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3355 vs 1629
2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3355 vs 1629

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	22.4 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 48
Floating-point performance	896.0 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355 vs 1629
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355 vs 1629

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 705M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4860

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1629

3355

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1629

3355

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 705M	ATI Radeon HD 4860
PassMark - G3D Mark	456
PassMark - G2D Mark	455
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	4.569
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	115.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.373
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	7.904
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	11.055
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1629	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1629	3355

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 705M	ATI Radeon HD 4860
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GF117	RV790
Launch date	27 September 2013	9 September 2009
Place in performance rating	1245	1248
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	738 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	141.7 gflops	896.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	48	640
Texture fill rate	5.904 GTexel / s	22.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	130 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	959 million
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 2560x1600
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 2560x1600
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 API	10.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Standard memory configuration	DDR3
Technologies
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus