ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 vs ATI Radeon X700

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 and ATI Radeon X700 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.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

ATI Radeon X700

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
3.7x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 44 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 91 vs 73

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2008 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 44 Watt
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	91 vs 73

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X700

Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 3.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	248 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

248

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450	ATI Radeon X700
PassMark - G3D Mark	91	73
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	248

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450	ATI Radeon X700
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	R400
Code name	M82	RV410
Launch date	7 January 2008	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	685	688
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	44 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	120 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	9.0b
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	DDR2 / GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
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