ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce G 110M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce G 110M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce G 110M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

Around 38% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 400 MHz
100x more pipelines: 1600 vs 16
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 1 GB vs 1 GB
4x more memory clock speed: 2800 MHz vs 700 MHz

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 400 MHz
Pipelines	1600 vs 16
Maximum memory size	2x 1 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz vs 700 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2	NVIDIA GeForce G 110M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	G9x
Code name	M98	N10M-GS1
Launch date	9 January 2009	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 880.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1600	16
Texture fill rate	2x 22 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count	956 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		14 Watt
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
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	2x 89.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2800 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR2, 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
PCI-E 2.0