Radeon HD 4720 vs GeForce GTX 260

Radeon HD 4720
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 4720
GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4720

127 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 260 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GTX 260

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 260

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4720GeForce GTX 260
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 XT)vsGT200 (G200-100-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs65 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs576 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs1,400 million
Shaders320vs192
Compute Units4vs8
Core clock600 MHzvs576 MHz
ROPs8vs28
TMUs32vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4720GeForce GTX 260
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs448 bit
Memory Speed667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
vs999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs896 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4720GeForce GTX 260
TDP55 wattsvs182 watts
Release Date11 Dec 2011vs16 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4720
    4.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4720
    19.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4720
    21.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4720
    384.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better