ATI Radeon HD 4270 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4270 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon HD 4270

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4270

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 303 vs 288

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 May 2010 vs 4 June 2008
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	303 vs 288

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 660 MHz vs 590 MHz
8x more pipelines: 320 vs 40
5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 548 vs 110

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	660 MHz vs 590 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 40
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	548 vs 110

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4270
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

110

548

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

303

288

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4270	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
PassMark - G3D Mark	110	548
PassMark - G2D Mark	303	288

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4270	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Essentials
Architecture	RV6xx	TeraScale
Code name	RS880M	M88
Launch date	1 May 2010	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	535	537
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	590 MHz	660 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	40	320
Floating-point performance		422.4 gflops
Texture fill rate		10.56 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		55 Watt
Transistor count		666 million
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Shared memory	yes	0
Memory bandwidth		54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1700 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Technologies
HDCP support
PCI-E 2.0
PowerPlay 7.0
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large