ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 and ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 10x more pipelines: 40 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 2% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 784 MHz
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 98 vs 48
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 July 2008 vs 1 March 2007
Pipelines 40 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 800 MHz vs 784 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 98 vs 48

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 479 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 1.916 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 263 vs 260
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 479 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 1.916 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 263 vs 260

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
98
48
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
260
263
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 ATI Mobility Radeon X2300
PassMark - G3D Mark 98 48
PassMark - G2D Mark 260 263

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale R500
Code name M82 M64
Launch date 25 July 2008 1 March 2007
Place in performance rating 642 643
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 479 MHz
Floating-point performance 36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 40 4
Texture fill rate 1.8 GTexel / s 1.916 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt
Transistor count 181 million 107 million
Boost clock speed 480 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-II PCIe 1.0 x16

API support

DirectX 10.1 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 7.14 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 400 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 784 MHz
Memory type GDDR2 128
Shared memory 0 no