AMD Radeon HD 7480D vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7480D and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 7480D

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7480D

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 3 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 55 nm

Launch date	26 September 2012 vs 4 June 2008
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 55 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 660 MHz vs 614 MHz
2.5x more pipelines: 320 vs 128
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 288 vs 119
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 548 vs 281

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	660 MHz vs 614 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	288 vs 119
PassMark - G3D Mark	548 vs 281

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7480D
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

119

288

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

281

548

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7480D	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Geekbench - OpenCL	694
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	348
PassMark - G2D Mark	119	288
PassMark - G3D Mark	281	548
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1235
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1704

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7480D	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 3	TeraScale
Code name	Trinity	M88
Launch date	26 September 2012	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1499	565
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	724 MHz
Core clock speed	614 MHz	660 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	128	320
Floating-point performance		422.4 gflops
Texture fill rate		10.56 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		55 Watt
Transistor count		666 million
API support
DirectX	11	10.1
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Shared memory	1	0
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1700 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Technologies
PowerPlay 7.0