ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 vs GeForce 7800 GT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1190not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.67no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG70M92
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date11 August 2005 (19 years ago)9 January 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 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 coresno data80
Core clock speed400 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors302 million242 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattno data
Texture fill rate8.0004.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs208

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 1.0 x16MXM-II
Length226 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s11.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

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-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D 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

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 August 2005 9 January 2009
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 110 nm 55 nm

ATI Mobility HD 4530 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 7800 GT and Mobility Radeon HD 4530. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 7800 GT is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 4530 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
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