NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 3470

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 47% higher texture fill rate: 4.71 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
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 30 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 120 vs 116
Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1017 vs 764
Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1017 vs 764

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 September 2010 vs 23 January 2008
Texture fill rate	4.71 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 30 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	120 vs 116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1017 vs 764
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1017 vs 764

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3470

Around 36% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 589 MHz
2.5x more pipelines: 40 vs 16
Around 43% better floating-point performance: 64 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1580 MHz
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 58 vs 56

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 589 MHz
Pipelines	40 vs 16
Floating-point performance	64 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Memory clock speed	1900 MHz vs 1580 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	58 vs 56

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3470

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

120

116

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1017

764

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1017

764

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM	ATI Radeon HD 3470
PassMark - G2D Mark	56	58
PassMark - G3D Mark	120	116
Geekbench - OpenCL	2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1017	764
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1017	764

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM	ATI Radeon HD 3470
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT218	RV620
Launch date	3 September 2010	23 January 2008
Place in performance rating	1629	1632
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	589 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	44.86 gflops	64 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	16	40
Texture fill rate	4.71 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.64 GB / s	15.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1580 MHz	1900 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3