NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M vs ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M and ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP 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 780M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 65% higher core clock speed: 823 MHz vs 498 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 27x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3805 vs 141
  • 5.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3351 vs 568
  • 5.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3351 vs 568
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 11 May 2013 vs 1 March 2010
Core clock speed 823 MHz vs 498 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3805 vs 141
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 vs 568
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 vs 568

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 442 vs 421
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 442 vs 421

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3805
141
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
421
442
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
568
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
568
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark 3805 141
PassMark - G2D Mark 421 442
Geekbench - OpenCL 12810
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 39.934
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 705.616
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.631
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 13.832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 78.867
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 568
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 568
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1466

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 RS880
Launch date 11 May 2013 1 March 2010
Place in performance rating 756 759
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 797 MHz
Core clock speed 823 MHz 498 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Floating-point performance 2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1536
Texture fill rate 102.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 181 million

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
TXAA