ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 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.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

20x more pipelines: 1600 vs 80

Pipelines	1600 vs 80

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
PassMark - G3D Mark		94
PassMark - G2D Mark		206

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	RV6xx
Code name	M98	M82-XT + RS780M
Launch date	9 January 2009	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	845
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 880.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1600	80
Texture fill rate	2x 22 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count	956 million	362 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 89.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, GDDR5	DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay