NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs ATI Radeon HD 4730

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 500M 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Quadro 500M

ATI Radeon HD 4730

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 110 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	22 February 2011 vs 8 June 2009
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 110 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4730

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 700 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
6.7x more pipelines: 640 vs 96
3.6x better floating-point performance: 960.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s vs 11.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 96
Floating-point performance	960.0 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 500M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4730

Name	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI Radeon HD 4730
PassMark - G3D Mark	571
PassMark - G2D Mark	365
Geekbench - OpenCL	8743
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		7497
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		7497

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro 500M	ATI Radeon HD 4730
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF108	RV770
Launch date	22 February 2011	8 June 2009
Place in performance rating	605	602
Price now	$275.14
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	3.18
Launch price (MSRP)		$79
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	750 MHz
Floating-point performance	268.8 gflops	960.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	96	640
Texture fill rate	11.2 GTexel / s	24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5