ATI Radeon HD 4710 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4710 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 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 4710

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4710

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 660 MHz
Around 86% lower typical power consumption: 59 Watt vs 110 Watt

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 660 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	59 Watt vs 110 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

8.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 24 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 640 vs 320
Around 76% better floating-point performance: 2x 422.4 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 2x 512 MB vs 512 MB
Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Texture fill rate	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 24 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 320
Floating-point performance	2x 422.4 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 512 MB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4710
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4710	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark		478
PassMark - G2D Mark		187

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4710	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale
Code name	RV730	M88
Launch date	10 September 2008	1 September 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	877
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	660 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops	2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	320	640
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	59 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	514 million	666 million
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
Length	193 mm
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	2x 54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory		0