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
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

Essentials

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

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

Display Connectors HDMIVGADual Link DVIDisplayPortSingle Link DVILVDS 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

DirectX 10.1 10.1
OpenGL 2.1 3.3

Memory

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

CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI

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