ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 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 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 50% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 98 vs 34
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 July 2008 vs 21 January 2003
Core clock speed 450 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 98 vs 34

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

  • Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 266 vs 260
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 2.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 266 vs 260

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
98
34
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
260
266
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000
PassMark - G3D Mark 98 34
PassMark - G2D Mark 260 266

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Rankine
Code name M82 NV30
Launch date 25 July 2008 21 January 2003
Place in performance rating 642 639
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 300 MHz
Floating-point performance 36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 40
Texture fill rate 1.8 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt
Transistor count 181 million 125 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-II AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 10.1 9.0a
OpenGL 3.3 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 600 MHz
Memory type GDDR2 DDR2
Shared memory 0