ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Videocard is newer: launch date 0 year(s) 11 month(s) later
10x more pipelines: 800 vs 80
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
8.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 763 vs 94
Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 206

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines	800 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	763 vs 94
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 vs 206

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

763

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

403

206

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	763	94
PassMark - G2D Mark	403	206
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	7.457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	512.081
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	RV6xx
Code name	Broadway	M82-XT + RS780M
Launch date	7 January 2010	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	844	845
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	800	80
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 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	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a