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.

 

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
94
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 843 844
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