ATI Radeon 9700 PRO vs ATI HD 4830

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking854not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.20no data
Power efficiency1.62no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameRV770R300
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 October 2008 (16 years ago)1 July 2002 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$130 no data

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 cores640no data
Core clock speed575 MHz325 MHz
Number of transistors956 million110 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattno data
Texture fill rate18.402.600
Floating-point processing power0.736 TFLOPSno data
ROPs168
TMUs328

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 8x
Length246 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinFloppy

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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB128 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz310 MHz
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/s19.84 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ATI HD 4830 835
+1475%
ATI 9700 PRO 53

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 October 2008 1 July 2002
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 150 nm

ATI HD 4830 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4830 and Radeon 9700 PRO. We've got no test results to judge.


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