Radeon HD 4830 vs GeForce GT 330 OEM

Radeon HD 4830
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2008
Radeon HD 4830
GeForce GT 330 OEM
Memory: 256Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Feb 2010
GeForce GT 330 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4830

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 330 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Radeon HD 4830

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4830

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4830GeForce GT 330 OEM
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 LE)vsG92 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs65 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs754 million
Shaders640vs112
Compute Units8vs7
Core clock575 MHzvs500 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4830GeForce GT 330 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs510 MHz
1020 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs256 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4830GeForce GT 330 OEM
TDP95 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2008vs2 Feb 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4830
    9.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 330 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4830
    18.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 330 OEM
    28.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4830
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 330 OEM
    16.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4830
    736.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 330 OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better