ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 and NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i 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

NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 630 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 93 vs 33

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2008 vs 16 November 2007
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 630 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	93 vs 33

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 254 vs 250

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	254 vs 250

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

250

254

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i
PassMark - G3D Mark	93	33
PassMark - G2D Mark	250	254

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	NVIDIA GeForce 7150 + nForce 630i
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	M82	C73
Launch date	7 January 2008	16 November 2007
Place in performance rating	673	674
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	630 MHz
Floating-point performance	54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	2.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCI
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory	0