NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition and ATI Radeon HD 4700 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

Around 6% higher core clock speed: 633 MHz vs 600 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 50.6 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Around 62% better floating-point performance: 622.1 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Around 75% higher maximum memory size: 896 MB vs 512 MB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 2268 MHz vs 800 MHz

Core clock speed	633 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	50.6 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	622.1 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	896 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2268 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4700

Around 33% higher pipelines: 320 vs 240
4.4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 219 Watt

Pipelines	320 vs 240
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 219 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition	ATI Radeon HD 4700
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT200B	RV730
Launch date	16 February 2010	11 February 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	633 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	622.1 gflops	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	240	320
Texture fill rate	50.6 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	219 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	514 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	193 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	896 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	127.0 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	448 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2268 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2