NVIDIA GeForce 315M vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 315M and ATI Radeon HD 3470 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 315M

ATI Radeon HD 3470

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 315M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 52% higher core clock speed: 1212 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 52% higher texture fill rate: 4.85 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 30 Watt
Around 83% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1401 vs 764
Around 83% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1401 vs 764

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 January 2011 vs 23 January 2008
Core clock speed	1212 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.85 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 30 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1401 vs 764
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1401 vs 764

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3470

2.5x more pipelines: 40 vs 16
Around 65% better floating-point performance: 64 gflops vs 38.78 gflops
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 117 vs 115
Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 55 vs 36

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	40 vs 16
Floating-point performance	64 gflops vs 38.78 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	117 vs 115
PassMark - G2D Mark	55 vs 36

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 315M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3470

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

115

117

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1401

764

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1401

764

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 315M	ATI Radeon HD 3470
PassMark - G3D Mark	115	117
PassMark - G2D Mark	36	55
Geekbench - OpenCL	2910
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1401	764
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1401	764

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 315M	ATI Radeon HD 3470
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT218	RV620
Launch date	5 January 2011	23 January 2008
Place in performance rating	1636	1638
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1212 MHz	800 MHz
CUDA cores	16
Floating-point performance	38.78 gflops	64 gflops
Gigaflops	73
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	16	40
Texture fill rate	4.85 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	DisplayPortHDMIVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVI	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	4.1	3.3
Memory
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	15.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory clock speed		1900 MHz
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management	8.0