ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS 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).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 550 MHz
6.7x more texture fill rate: 2x 9.28 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4.4 GTexel / s
80x more pipelines: 640 vs 8
33.1x better floating-point performance: 2x 371.2 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2x 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 9.28 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 8
Floating-point performance	2x 371.2 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

5.4x lower typical power consumption: 13 Watt vs 70 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 Watt vs 70 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark		103
PassMark - G2D Mark		27
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		747
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		747

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2	NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	M88	G98
Launch date	4 June 2008	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	1679
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 371.2 gflops	22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	640	8
Texture fill rate	2x 9.28 GTexel / s billion / sec	4.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt	13 Watt
Transistor count	666 million	210 million
CUDA cores		8
Gigaflops		34
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-I
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 48.0 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CrossFire
PCI-E 2.0
CUDA