ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameG72M97-XT
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date22 March 2006 (18 years old)3 March 2009 (15 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$32 no data
Current price$79 (2.5x MSRP)no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data640
Core clock speed450 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors112 million826 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Texture fill rate1.80020.80
Floating-point performanceno data832.0 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 7300 LE and Mobility Radeon HD 4860 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount128 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed648 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth5.184 GB/s64 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 22 March 2006 3 March 2009
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce 7300 LE and Mobility Radeon HD 4860. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 7300 LE is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 4860 is a notebook one.


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