ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
19.1x lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 134 Watt
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 130 vs 127

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 July 2008 vs 5 March 2007
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt vs 134 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	130 vs 127

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
7.5x more texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 96 vs 40
7.2x better floating-point performance: 230.4 gflops vs 32 gflops
3x more maximum memory size: 768 MB vs 256 MB
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
6.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 431 vs 63

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 40
Floating-point performance	230.4 gflops vs 32 gflops
Maximum memory size	768 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	431 vs 63

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

431

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

130

127

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
PassMark - G3D Mark	63	431
PassMark - G2D Mark	130	127
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3230
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3230

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	M82	G80
Launch date	25 July 2008	5 March 2007
Place in performance rating	1203	1205
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,999
Price now		$143.51
Value for money (0-100)		5.45
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	32 gflops	230.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	40	96
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt	134 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	681 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	768 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	67.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2	GDDR3
Shared memory	0