Radeon HD 4730 and GeForce GTX 260 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 4730

GeForce GTX 260

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

RV770

GT200

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2009

June 2008

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

SLI options

-

+

Core clock speed

750 MHz

576 MHz

CUDA cores

-

192

Floating-point performance

960.0 gflops

476.9 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

956 million

1,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

192

Power consumption (TDP)

110 Watt

182 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

-

105 °C

Texture fill rate

24.00

36.9 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

896 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

448 Bit

Memory clock speed

3600 MHz

999 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

111.9 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Dual Link DVIHDTV

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

S/PDIF

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

Shader Model

4.1

4.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A