ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
- Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
- Around 47% higher core clock speed: 660 MHz vs 450 MHz
- 39x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s
- 53.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 12
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
- 4x more maximum memory size: 2x 512 MB vs 256 MB
- Around 42% higher memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1200 MHz
- 3.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 478 vs 138
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 1 September 2008 vs 24 February 2005 |
Core clock speed | 660 MHz vs 450 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 5.4 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 640 vs 12 |
Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm vs 130 nm |
Maximum memory size | 2x 512 MB vs 256 MB |
Memory clock speed | 1700 MHz vs 1200 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 478 vs 138 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
- Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 89 Watt vs 110 Watt
- Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 198 vs 187
Specifications (specs) | |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 89 Watt vs 110 Watt |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 198 vs 187 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 | NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 478 | 138 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 187 | 198 |
Compare specifications (specs)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 | NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | TeraScale | Curie |
Code name | M88 | NV41 |
Launch date | 1 September 2008 | 24 February 2005 |
Place in performance rating | 879 | 881 |
Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 660 MHz | 450 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 2x 422.4 gflops | |
Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | 130 nm |
Pipelines | 640 | 12 |
Texture fill rate | 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec | 5.4 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 110 Watt | 89 Watt |
Transistor count | 666 million | 222 million |
Boost clock speed | 450 MHz | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | large |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.1 | 9.0c |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 2.1 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2x 512 MB | 256 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 2x 54.4 GB / s | 38.4 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 600 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1700 MHz | 1200 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR3 | 256 |
Shared memory | 0 | 0 |