ATI Radeon HD 3690 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3690 and NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS 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.

ATI Radeon HD 3690

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3690

Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 10.72 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
10x more pipelines: 320 vs 32
5.4x better floating-point performance: 428.8 gflops vs 80 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm
2.1x more memory clock speed: 1660 MHz vs 800 MHz

Texture fill rate	10.72 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Pipelines	320 vs 32
Floating-point performance	428.8 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 80 nm
Memory clock speed	1660 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Around 87% higher core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 670 MHz
2.6x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB

Core clock speed	1250 MHz vs 670 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 3690
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Name	ATI Radeon HD 3690	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark		270
PassMark - G2D Mark		328

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3690	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RV670	G84
Launch date	30 March 2008	13 March 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	486
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	670 MHz	1250 MHz
Floating-point performance	428.8 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	320	32
Texture fill rate	10.72 GTexel / s	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	29 Watt
Transistor count	666 million	289 million
CUDA cores		32
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	26.56 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1660 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR2?, GDDR3
Shared memory		0