ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 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 Go 6600

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
10x more pipelines: 80 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 94 vs 69

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2009 vs 29 September 2005
Pipelines	80 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	94 vs 69

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 209 vs 206

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	209 vs 206

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

206

209

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
PassMark - G3D Mark	94	69
PassMark - G2D Mark	206	209

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
Essentials
Architecture	RV6xx	Curie
Code name	M82-XT + RS780M	NV43 A2
Launch date	8 January 2009	29 September 2005
Place in performance rating	881	882
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	80	8
Transistor count	362 Million	146 million
Boost clock speed		375 MHz
Core clock speed		300 MHz
Texture fill rate		2.4 GTexel / s
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3	128
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		300 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-II
Laptop size		medium sized