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.

 

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
93
67
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 675 677
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