ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs ATI Radeon X600 PRO

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 and ATI Radeon X600 PRO 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 X600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 70% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 70% higher texture fill rate: 2.72 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 36 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 93 vs 67

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2008 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.72 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 36 Watt
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	93 vs 67

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600 PRO

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 252 vs 250

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	252 vs 250

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

250

252

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	ATI Radeon X600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	93	67
PassMark - G2D Mark	250	252

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	ATI Radeon X600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rage 9
Code name	M82	RV370
Launch date	7 January 2008	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	677	679
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	2.72 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt	36 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0