NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
Around 84% higher core clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 680 MHz
Around 84% higher texture fill rate: 10 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
Around 3% lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 30 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 270 vs 232

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2008 vs 7 January 2008
Core clock speed	1250 MHz vs 680 MHz
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt vs 30 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	270 vs 232

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

3.8x more pipelines: 120 vs 32
2x better floating-point performance: 163.2 gflops vs 80 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 331 vs 328

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	120 vs 32
Floating-point performance	163.2 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 80 nm
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	331 vs 328

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

270

232

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

328

331

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670
PassMark - G3D Mark	270	232
PassMark - G2D Mark	328	331

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G84	M86
Launch date	13 March 2008	7 January 2008
Place in performance rating	507	508
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1250 MHz	680 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	80 gflops	163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	32	120
Texture fill rate	10 GTexel / s	5.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	29 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	289 million	378 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2?, GDDR3	DDR2 / GDDR3 / GDDR4
Shared memory	0	0