AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Sky 500 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

AMD Radeon Sky 500

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Sky 500

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 680 MHz
14x more texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
10.7x more pipelines: 1280 vs 120
14.9x better floating-point performance: 2,432 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
20.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4709 vs 232
Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 572 vs 331

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 March 2013 vs 7 January 2008
Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 680 MHz
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 120
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4709 vs 232
PassMark - G2D Mark	572 vs 331

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

5x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Sky 500
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4709

232

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

572

331

Name	AMD Radeon Sky 500	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670
PassMark - G3D Mark	4709	232
PassMark - G2D Mark	572	331
Geekbench - OpenCL	74902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	54.669
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1096.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	89.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	247.642
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5116
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	5116

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Sky 500	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	TeraScale
Code name	Pitcairn	M86
Launch date	27 March 2013	7 January 2008
Place in performance rating	506	508
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	950 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops	163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1280	120
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s	5.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	378 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	1
Dual-link DVI support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Form factor	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	242 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	154 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2 / GDDR3 / GDDR4
Shared memory		0