Radeon HD 4650 vs GeForce 9800 GTX
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4650 |
| 92 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GTX . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 9800 GTX |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GTX
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4650 | | GeForce 9800 GTX | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV730 (RV730 PRO) | vs | G92 (G92-420-A2) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 146 mm² | vs | 324 mm² |
| Transistors | 514 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 128 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 675 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4650 | | GeForce 9800 GTX | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 700 MHz
1400 MHz effective | vs | 1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 256 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4650 | | GeForce 9800 GTX | |
|---|
| TDP | 48 watts | vs | 140 watts |
| Release Date | 10 Sep 2008 | vs | 28 Mar 2008 |
Radeon HD 4650
4.80 GP/s
GeForce 9800 GTX
10.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4650
19.20 GT/s
GeForce 9800 GTX
43.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4650
22.40 GB/s
GeForce 9800 GTX
70.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4650
384.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 9800 GTX
432.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better