NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M vs ATI Radeon HD 4730
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
- 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 38 Watt vs 110 Watt
- 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 55 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 38 Watt vs 110 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 1 GB vs 512 MB |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730
- Around 36% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 550 MHz
- Around 36% higher texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 17.6 GTexel / s
- 6.7x more pipelines: 640 vs 96
- 3.6x better floating-point performance: 960.0 gflops vs 264 gflops
Core clock speed | 750 MHz vs 550 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 24 GTexel / s vs 17.6 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 640 vs 96 |
Floating-point performance | 960.0 gflops vs 264 gflops |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4730
Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M | ATI Radeon HD 4730 |
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GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 7497 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 7497 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M | ATI Radeon HD 4730 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Tesla 2.0 | TeraScale |
Code name | GT215 | RV770 |
Launch date | 15 June 2009 | 8 June 2009 |
Place in performance rating | not rated | 601 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Launch price (MSRP) | $79 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 550 MHz | 750 MHz |
CUDA cores | 96 | |
Floating-point performance | 264 gflops | 960.0 gflops |
Gigaflops | 396 | |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 55 nm |
Pipelines | 96 | 640 |
Texture fill rate | 17.6 GTexel / s | 24 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 38 Watt | 110 Watt |
Transistor count | 727 million | 956 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | |
MXM Type | MXM 3.0 Type-B | |
SLI options | 2-way | |
Length | 241 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.1 | 10.1 |
OpenGL | 2.1 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 512 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 57.6 GB / s | 57.6 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 128 Bit |
Memory type | GDDR3, GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Memory clock speed | 3600 MHz | |
Technologies |
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CUDA | ||
HybridPower | ||
MXM 3.0 Type-B | ||
Power management | 8.0 | |
PowerMizer 8.0 | ||
SLI |