NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 68% higher core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 550 MHz
4.7x more texture fill rate: 83.04 GTexel / s vs 17.6 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 640
3.8x better floating-point performance: 2,657 gflops vs 704.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
11.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5725 vs 512
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 391 vs 285

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 October 2014 vs 3 March 2009
Core clock speed	924 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	83.04 GTexel / s vs 17.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 640
Floating-point performance	2,657 gflops vs 704.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5725 vs 512
PassMark - G2D Mark	391 vs 285

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830

Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 2800 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Memory clock speed	2800 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5725

512

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

391

285

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830
PassMark - G3D Mark	5725	512
PassMark - G2D Mark	391	285
Geekbench - OpenCL	18376
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	59.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1113.788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.101
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	81.909
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2283

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GM204	M97
Launch date	7 October 2014	3 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,560.89
Place in performance rating	548	542
Price now	$1,899
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	3.99
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz
Core clock speed	924 MHz	550 MHz
CUDA cores	1280
Floating-point performance	2,657 gflops	704.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	640
Texture fill rate	83.04 GTexel / s	17.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	81 Watt
Transistor count	5,200 million	826 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large	large
SLI options	1
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	120 GB / s	44.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	2800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3, DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
CrossFire
Powerplay