ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 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 5600

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
24.4x lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 171 Watt
Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 130 vs 109

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 171 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	130 vs 109

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

Around 50% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 400 MHz
12x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 128 vs 40
10.8x better floating-point performance: 345.6 gflops vs 32 gflops
6x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 256 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
8.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 525 vs 63

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	128 vs 40
Floating-point performance	345.6 gflops vs 32 gflops
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	525 vs 63

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

525

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

130

109

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
PassMark - G3D Mark	63	525
PassMark - G2D Mark	130	109
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3328
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3328

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	M82	G80
Launch date	25 July 2008	5 March 2007
Place in performance rating	1241	1243
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,999
Price now		$179.99
Value for money (0-100)		4.92
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	32 gflops	345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	40	128
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	7 Watt	171 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		254 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2	GDDR3
Shared memory	0