ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm

Launch date	8 January 2009 vs 12 August 2004
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual
PassMark - G3D Mark	94
PassMark - G2D Mark	206

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual
Essentials
Architecture	RV6xx	Curie
Code name	M82-XT + RS780M	NV43 A2
Launch date	8 January 2009	12 August 2004
Place in performance rating	881	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	80
Transistor count	362 Million	146 million
Core clock speed		450 MHz
Texture fill rate		2x 3.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		2x 128 MB
Memory bandwidth		2x 16 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 128 Bit
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin