ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP 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 3870 X2

ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 89% higher core clock speed: 660 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm
13.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 478 vs 36

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 September 2008 vs 28 February 2007
Core clock speed	660 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	478 vs 36

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP

Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 192 vs 187

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	192 vs 187

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
GPU 2: ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

478

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

187

192

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2	ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	478	36
PassMark - G2D Mark	187	192

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2	ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	R400
Code name	M88	RS690
Launch date	1 September 2008	28 February 2007
Place in performance rating	897	942
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	660 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt
Transistor count	666 million	120 million
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
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0b
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory	0