ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S 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 NVS 210S

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
4.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 98 vs 24

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 July 2008 vs 22 December 2003
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	98 vs 24

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

Around 9% lower typical power consumption: 11 Watt vs 12 Watt
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 265 vs 260

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	11 Watt vs 12 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	265 vs 260

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

260

265

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S
PassMark - G3D Mark	98	24
PassMark - G2D Mark	260	265

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M82	MCP51
Launch date	25 July 2008	22 December 2003
Place in performance rating	642	639
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	11 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCI
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2
Shared memory	0