Radeon HD 4650 vs GeForce GT 530 OEM

Radeon HD 4650
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4650
GeForce GT 530 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2011
GeForce GT 530 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4650

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 530 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4650

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4650

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4650GeForce GT 530 OEM
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 PRO)vsGF108 (GF108-200-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs585 million
Shaders320vs96
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4650GeForce GT 530 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4650GeForce GT 530 OEM
TDP48 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2008vs14 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4650
    4.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4650
    19.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4650
    22.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4650
    384.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 530 OEM
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better