NVIDIA GeForce 830A vs ATI Radeon HD 4250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 830A and ATI Radeon HD 4250 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 830A

ATI Radeon HD 4250

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 830A

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 82% higher core clock speed: 1082 MHz vs 594 MHz
7.7x more texture fill rate: 18.4 GTexel / s vs 2.376 GTexel / s
6.4x more pipelines: 256 vs 40
12.4x better floating-point performance: 588.8 gflops vs 47.52 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 792 MHz
9.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1188 vs 123
4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3302 vs 782
4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3302 vs 782

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 July 2014 vs 25 February 2009
Core clock speed	1082 MHz vs 594 MHz
Texture fill rate	18.4 GTexel / s vs 2.376 GTexel / s
Pipelines	256 vs 40
Floating-point performance	588.8 gflops vs 47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 792 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1188 vs 123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3302 vs 782
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3302 vs 782

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4250

Around 32% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 33 Watt

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 33 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	408 vs 407

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 830A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4250

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1188

123

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

407

408

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3302

782

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3302

782

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 830A	ATI Radeon HD 4250
PassMark - G3D Mark	1188	123
PassMark - G2D Mark	407	408
Geekbench - OpenCL	4315
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1767
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2889
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2889
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3302	782
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3302	782

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 830A	ATI Radeon HD 4250
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	TeraScale
Code name	GM108	RV620
Launch date	22 July 2014	25 February 2009
Place in performance rating	798	800
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1150 MHz
Core clock speed	1082 MHz	594 MHz
Floating-point performance	588.8 gflops	47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	256	40
Texture fill rate	18.4 GTexel / s	2.376 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count		181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	6.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	792 MHz
Memory type	DDR3
Shared memory		yes
Technologies
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0