NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) vs ATI Radeon HD 3730

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE) and ATI Radeon HD 3730 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements.

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)

ATI Radeon HD 3730

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)

5.4x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 65 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3730

Around 60% higher core clock speed: 722 MHz vs 450 MHz
7.5x more pipelines: 120 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm

Core clock speed	722 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines	120 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (G) / ION (LE)	ATI Radeon HD 3730
Essentials
Code name	MCP79MX	RV635
Launch date	14 October 2008	5 October 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		TeraScale
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	722 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	16	120
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	282 Million	378 million
Floating-point performance		173.28 gflops
Texture fill rate		5.78 GTexel / s
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Shared memory	yes
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		12.67 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		792 MHz
Memory type		DDR2
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None