AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 6850

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
12x more pipelines: 960 vs 80
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
20.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1966 vs 94
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 433 vs 206

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 October 2010 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines	960 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1966 vs 94
PassMark - G2D Mark	433 vs 206

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6850
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1966

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

433

206

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6850	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	1966	94
PassMark - G2D Mark	433	206
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	13.033
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	946.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	32.609
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	139.45
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3348
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6850	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	RV6xx
Code name	Barts	M82-XT + RS780M
Design	AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Launch date	21 October 2010	8 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$179
Place in performance rating	839	842
Price now	$99.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	28.63
Technical info
Floating-point performance	1,488.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	960	80
Texture fill rate	37.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	127 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million	362 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	AGP
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	198 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	10.1
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire