ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 vs ATI Radeon X550

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 and ATI Radeon X550 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 Radeon X550

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 1.8 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 92% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 98 vs 51

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 July 2008 vs 1 July 2005
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	98 vs 51

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X550

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 266 vs 260

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	266 vs 260

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

260

266

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430	ATI Radeon X550
PassMark - G3D Mark	98	51
PassMark - G2D Mark	260	266

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430	ATI Radeon X550
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rage 9
Code name	M82	RV370
Launch date	25 July 2008	1 July 2005
Place in performance rating	642	639
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2	DDR
Shared memory	0