ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 vs ATI Radeon X600 XT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 and ATI Radeon X600 XT 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 3850

ATI Radeon X600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 16% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 500 MHz
4.6x more texture fill rate: 9.28 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 740 MHz
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 366 vs 92

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 June 2008 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.28 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz vs 740 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	366 vs 92

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600 XT

Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 35 Watt
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 258 vs 248

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	258 vs 248

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

366

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

248

258

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850	ATI Radeon X600 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	366	92
PassMark - G2D Mark	248	258

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850	ATI Radeon X600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rage 9
Code name	M88	RV380
Launch date	4 June 2008	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	651	654
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	371.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	9.28 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	666 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDCP
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0b
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	48.0 GB / s	11.84 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	740 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0