ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1800

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 and ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 40 vs 12
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
Launch date 7 January 2008 vs 1 March 2006
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines 40 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X1800

  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 5.4 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
  • Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 130 vs 91
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 5.4 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 130 vs 91

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X1800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
91
130
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
247
247
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 ATI Mobility Radeon X1800
PassMark - G3D Mark 91 130
PassMark - G2D Mark 247 247

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 ATI Mobility Radeon X1800

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale R500
Code name M82 M58
Launch date 7 January 2008 1 March 2006
Place in performance rating 686 687
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 40 12
Texture fill rate 2 GTexel / s 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt
Transistor count 181 million 321 million
Boost clock speed 450 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-II MXM-III
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 10.1 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 500 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type DDR2 / GDDR3 256
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

Powerplay