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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

ATI Radeon HD 4730

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	602
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