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
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 603 601
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