Radeon HD 4830 vs GeForce GTS 250

Radeon HD 4830
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2008
Radeon HD 4830
GeForce GTS 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Mar 2009
GeForce GTS 250

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4830

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 250 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTS 250

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTS 250
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 LE)vsG92B (G92-428-B1)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs754 million
Shaders640vs128
Compute Units8vs8
Core clock575 MHzvs702 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4830GeForce GTS 250
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4830GeForce GTS 250
TDP95 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date21 Oct 2008vs4 Mar 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4830
    9.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4830
    18.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    44.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4830
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTS 250
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4830
    736.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTS 250
    387.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better