NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs ATI Radeon HD 4730

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 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: 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 670

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 750 MHz
  • 4.3x more texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 24 GTexel / s
  • 2.1x more pipelines: 1344 vs 640
  • 2.6x better floating-point performance: 2,459.5 gflops vs 960.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Launch date 10 May 2012 vs 8 June 2009
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec vs 24 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 640
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops vs 960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730

  • Around 55% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 170 Watt
  • 600x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7497 vs 3361
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7497 vs 3361
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt vs 170 Watt
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 7497 vs 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 7497 vs 3361

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4730

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
7497
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
7497
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 ATI Radeon HD 4730
PassMark - G3D Mark 5336
PassMark - G2D Mark 530
Geekbench - OpenCL 15412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 41.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 971.208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.281
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 40.404
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 86.208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7038
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 7497
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7038
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 7497
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1798

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 ATI Radeon HD 4730

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 RV770
Launch date 10 May 2012 8 June 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $79
Place in performance rating 563 586
Price now $474.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 13.20

Technical info

Boost clock speed 980 MHz
Core clock speed 980 MHz 750 MHz
CUDA cores 1344
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops 960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Pipelines 1344 640
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec 24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt 110 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 956 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI..., 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm) 241 mm
SLI options 3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256-bit GDDR5 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 3600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA