NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2.7x more core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 21.6x more texture fill rate: 77.7 billion / sec vs 3.6 GTexel / s
  • 12.8x more pipelines: 1024 vs 80
  • 34.6x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,244.2 gflops vs 72 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 512 MB
  • Around 42% higher memory clock speed: 1707 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 24.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3341 vs 135
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 394 vs 377
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3330 vs 1654
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3330 vs 1654
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 24 March 2011 vs 9 January 2009
Core clock speed 1215 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 77.7 billion / sec vs 3.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 80
Floating-point performance 2x 1,244.2 gflops vs 72 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1707 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3341 vs 135
PassMark - G2D Mark 394 vs 377
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3330 vs 1654
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3330 vs 1654

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
135
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
394
377
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3330
1654
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3330
1654
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330
PassMark - G3D Mark 3341 135
PassMark - G2D Mark 394 377
Geekbench - OpenCL 12811
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 30.921
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1116.126
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 107.239
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3330 1654
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3330 1654
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GF110 M92
Launch date 24 March 2011 9 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Place in performance rating 790 793
Price now $184
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 30.41

Technical info

Core clock speed 1215 MHz 450 MHz
CUDA cores 1024
Floating-point performance 2x 1,244.2 gflops 72 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Pipelines 1024 80
Texture fill rate 77.7 billion / sec 3.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 365 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 242 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort, Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm)
SLI options Quad
Supplementary power connectors Two 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 327.7 GB / s 9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 768-bit (384-bit per GPU) 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1707 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround
1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay