ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and ATI Mobility Radeon X700 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 89% higher core clock speed: 660 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 75.2x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s
  • 80x more pipelines: 640 vs 8
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2x 512 MB vs 128 MB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 7.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 478 vs 67
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 September 2008 vs 1 March 2005
Core clock speed 660 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 2x 512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1700 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 478 vs 67

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X700

  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 200 vs 187
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 200 vs 187

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X700

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
478
67
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
187
200
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 ATI Mobility Radeon X700
PassMark - G3D Mark 478 67
PassMark - G2D Mark 187 200

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 ATI Mobility Radeon X700

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale R400
Code name M88 M26
Launch date 1 September 2008 1 March 2005
Place in performance rating 879 880
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 660 MHz 350 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 640 8
Texture fill rate 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec 2.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 110 Watt
Transistor count 666 million 120 million
Boost clock speed 350 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized

API support

DirectX 10.1 9.0b
OpenGL 3.3 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2x 512 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 2x 54.4 GB / s 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 350 Bit
Memory clock speed 1700 MHz 600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 128
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

PCIe