NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 vs ATI Radeon HD 4830

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 and ATI Radeon HD 4830 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, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 2.8x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 4.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 232 vs 56
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 February 2011 vs 21 October 2008
Core clock speed 1620 MHz vs 575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
Maximum memory size 512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 232 vs 56

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4830

  • Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 18.4 GTexel / s vs 13.0 billion / sec
  • 6.7x more pipelines: 640 vs 96
  • 2.4x better floating-point performance: 736.0 gflops vs 311.04 gflops
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3)
  • Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 844 vs 772
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3354 vs 3275
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3354 vs 3275
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 18.4 GTexel / s vs 13.0 billion / sec
Pipelines 640 vs 96
Floating-point performance 736.0 gflops vs 311.04 gflops
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 844 vs 772
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354 vs 3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354 vs 3275

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4830

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
772
844
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
232
56
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3275
3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3275
3354
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 ATI Radeon HD 4830
PassMark - G3D Mark 772 844
PassMark - G2D Mark 232 56
Geekbench - OpenCL 2624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 6.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 171.053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.65
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 9.729
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.871
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3275 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3275 3354

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 ATI Radeon HD 4830

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale
Code name GF108 RV770
Launch date 1 February 2011 21 October 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $79 $130
Place in performance rating 1337 1338
Price now $69.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 14.03

Technical info

Core clock speed 1620 MHz 575 MHz
CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 311.04 gflops 736.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 98 °C
Pipelines 96 640
Texture fill rate 13.0 billion / sec 18.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 95 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 956 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, HDMIVGADual Link DVI 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 5.7" (14.5 cm) 246 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5) 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3) 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU 1 GB GDDR5 or 2 GB

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA