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
GPU 1
GPU 2
478
138
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
187
198
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 478 138
PassMark - G2D Mark 187 198

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Essentials

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

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

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.1 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

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