ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 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 6800

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
6.7x more pipelines: 80 vs 12
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2009 vs 8 November 2004
Pipelines	80 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	206 vs 205

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 106 vs 94

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	106 vs 94

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

106

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

206

205

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800
PassMark - G3D Mark	94	106
PassMark - G2D Mark	206	205

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800
Essentials
Architecture	RV6xx	Curie
Code name	M82-XT + RS780M	NV41
Launch date	8 January 2009	8 November 2004
Place in performance rating	848	849
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	80	12
Transistor count	362 Million	222 million
Boost clock speed		300 MHz
Core clock speed		300 MHz
Texture fill rate		3.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		45 Watt
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL		2.1
Memory
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3	128 / 256
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		300 Bit
Memory clock speed		1100 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		MXM-III
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None