NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs ATI Radeon HD 4730
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945A and ATI Radeon HD 4730 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 945A
- Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
- Around 43% higher core clock speed: 1072 MHz vs 750 MHz
- Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 28.22 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
- 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 110 Watt
- 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Launch date | 13 March 2015 vs 8 June 2009 |
Core clock speed | 1072 MHz vs 750 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 28.22 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 55 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 33 Watt vs 110 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 2 GB vs 512 MB |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730
- Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
- Around 6% better floating-point performance: 960.0 gflops vs 903.2 gflops
- 2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Pipelines | 640 vs 384 |
Floating-point performance | 960.0 gflops vs 903.2 gflops |
Memory clock speed | 3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4730
Name | NVIDIA GeForce 945A | ATI Radeon HD 4730 |
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Geekbench - OpenCL | 32359 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 28.865 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 381.898 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 1.991 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 30.793 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 107.63 | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 716 | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 1852 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 7497 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 7497 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce 945A | ATI Radeon HD 4730 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Maxwell | TeraScale |
Code name | GM108 | RV770 |
Launch date | 13 March 2015 | 8 June 2009 |
Place in performance rating | 603 | 601 |
Type | Desktop | Desktop |
Launch price (MSRP) | $79 | |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1176 MHz | |
Core clock speed | 1072 MHz | 750 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 903.2 gflops | 960.0 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 55 nm |
Pipelines | 384 | 640 |
Texture fill rate | 28.22 GTexel / s | 24 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 33 Watt | 110 Watt |
Transistor count | 956 million | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Length | 241 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 10.1 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 512 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 14.4 GB / s | 57.6 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 128 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | 3600 MHz |
Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |