ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 vs GeForce GT 630 OEM

Place in the ranking	943	784
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	0.15
Power efficiency	2.31	0.82
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	GK107	R700
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	24 April 2012 (12 years ago)	7 November 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$420

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	800
Core clock speed	875 MHz	625 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	956 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	14.00	25.00
Floating-point processing power	0.336 TFLOPS	1 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	16
TMUs	16	40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	267 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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 type	DDR3	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	891 MHz	995 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.51 GB/s	63.68 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	5.1	4.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	3.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.66	2.93
Recency	24 April 2012	7 November 2008
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	250 Watt

GT 630 OEM has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 4850 X2, on the other hand, has a 76.5% higher aggregate performance score.

The Radeon HD 4850 X2 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GT 630 OEM in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.