Radeon HD 4700 vs GeForce GTS 450

Radeon HD 4700
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 4700
GeForce GTS 450
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2010
GeForce GTS 450

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4700

56 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 450 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 450

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTS 450

HWBench recommends GeForce GTS 450

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4700GeForce GTS 450
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 XT)vsGF106 (GF106-250-KA-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders320vs192
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock600 MHzvs783 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs32vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4700GeForce GTS 450
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs902 MHz
3608 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4700GeForce GTS 450
TDP50 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date11 Feb 2010vs13 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4700
    4.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    6.26 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4700
    19.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    25.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4700
    12.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 450
    57.70 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4700
    384.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 450
    601.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better