ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
3.8x more pipelines: 120 vs 32
Around 58% better floating-point performance: 120 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm
Around 57% lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 47 Watt
2x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 142 vs 131
Around 14% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1586 vs 1397
Around 14% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1586 vs 1397

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2008 vs 17 April 2007
Pipelines	120 vs 32
Floating-point performance	120 gflops vs 76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 47 Watt
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	142 vs 131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1586 vs 1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1586 vs 1397

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 8.6 billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 42 vs 32

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.6 billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	42 vs 32

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

142

131

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1586

1397

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1586

1397

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	142	131
PassMark - G2D Mark	32	42
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1586	1397
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1586	1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		449
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		449

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650	NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	M86	G84
Launch date	7 January 2008	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	1618	1621
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$159
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	540 MHz
Floating-point performance	120 gflops	76.16 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	120	32
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	8.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	47 Watt
Transistor count	378 million	289 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3 / GDDR4	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Standard memory config per GPU		256 MB
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0
SLI