ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs ATI Radeon X1550

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 and ATI Radeon X1550 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

ATI Radeon X1550

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 2.72 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 27 Watt
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 93 vs 67

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2008 vs 1 January 2007
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.72 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 27 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	93 vs 67

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1550

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 253 vs 250

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	253 vs 250

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1550

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

250

253

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	ATI Radeon X1550
PassMark - G3D Mark	93	67
PassMark - G2D Mark	250	253

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	ATI Radeon X1550
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	R500
Code name	M82	RV515
Launch date	7 January 2008	1 January 2007
Place in performance rating	674	671
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	2.72 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	27 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	107 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	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0