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).

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

ATI Radeon HD 4730

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
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
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	TeraScale
Code name	GM108	RV770
Launch date	13 March 2015	8 June 2009
Place in performance rating	604	602
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$79
Technical info
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
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
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	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5