Radeon HD 4730 vs GeForce GT 440

Radeon HD 4730
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jun 2009
Radeon HD 4730
GeForce GT 440
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
GeForce GT 440

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 4730
    127%
  • GeForce GT 440
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4730

Around 27% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 440

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4730 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4730

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4730

The Radeon HD 4730 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4730GeForce GT 440
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 CE)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs585 million
Shaders640vs96
Compute Units8vs2
Core clock750 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4730GeForce GT 440
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4730GeForce GT 440
TDP110 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date8 Jun 2009vs1 Feb 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4730
    6.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    3.24 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4730
    24.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4730
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 440
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4730
    960.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 440
    311.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 4730
    1530
  • GeForce GT 440
    1200

Points (higher is better)