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.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

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

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	645	647
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