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.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000

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

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	640
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