NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M vs ATI Radeon HD 4870
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M and ATI Radeon HD 4870 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
- Around 67% higher core clock speed: 1249 MHz vs 750 MHz
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
- 5.4x lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 150 Watt
- 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
- 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 113 vs 44
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 7 January 2010 vs 25 June 2008 |
Core clock speed | 1249 MHz vs 750 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 55 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 28 Watt vs 150 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 1 GB vs 512 MB |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 113 vs 44 |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4870
- Around 88% higher texture fill rate: 30 GTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s
- 8.3x more pipelines: 800 vs 96
- 5x better floating-point performance: 1,200.0 gflops vs 240 gflops
- 3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1380 vs 408
- Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3346 vs 3123
- Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3346 vs 3123
Specifications (specs) | |
Texture fill rate | 30 GTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 800 vs 96 |
Floating-point performance | 1,200.0 gflops vs 240 gflops |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 1380 vs 408 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3346 vs 3123 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3346 vs 3123 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4870
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M | ATI Radeon HD 4870 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 408 | 1380 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 113 | 44 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3123 | 3346 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3123 | 3346 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 8210 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M | ATI Radeon HD 4870 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Tesla 2.0 | TeraScale |
Code name | GT215 | RV770 |
Launch date | 7 January 2010 | 25 June 2008 |
Place in performance rating | 1327 | 1330 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Launch price (MSRP) | $299 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 1249 MHz | 750 MHz |
CUDA cores | 96 | |
Floating-point performance | 240 gflops | 1,200.0 gflops |
Gigaflops | 360 | |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 55 nm |
Pipelines | 96 | 800 |
Texture fill rate | 16 GTexel / s | 30 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 28 Watt | 150 Watt |
Transistor count | 727 million | 956 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | DisplayPortLVDSHDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGA | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
HDMI | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
Interface | MXM-II | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | |
MXM Type | MXM 3.0 Type-B | |
SLI options | 2-way | |
Length | 250 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | 2x 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 | 51.2 GB / s | 115.2 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Memory clock speed | 3600 MHz | |
Technologies |
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HybridPower | ||
MXM 3.0 Type-B | ||
Power management | 8.0 | |
PowerMizer 8.0 | ||
SLI |