NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT and ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
- Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
- Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 75 Watt
- Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 120 vs 92
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 29 July 2008 vs 3 January 2008 |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt vs 75 Watt |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 120 vs 92 |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
- Around 7% higher core clock speed: 668 MHz vs 625 MHz
- Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 10.69 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
- 10x more pipelines: 320 vs 32
- 4.3x better floating-point performance: 427.5 gflops vs 99.2 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
- Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1656 MHz vs 1600 MHz
- 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 432 vs 209
- Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2417 vs 1901
- Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2417 vs 1901
Specifications (specs) | |
Core clock speed | 668 MHz vs 625 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 10.69 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 320 vs 32 |
Floating-point performance | 427.5 gflops vs 99.2 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm vs 65 nm |
Memory clock speed | 1656 MHz vs 1600 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 432 vs 209 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 2417 vs 1901 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 2417 vs 1901 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) |
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GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT | ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 209 | 432 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 120 | 92 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 1901 | 2417 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 1901 | 2417 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT | ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Tesla | TeraScale |
Code name | G96 | RV670 |
Launch date | 29 July 2008 | 3 January 2008 |
Place in performance rating | 1377 | 1379 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 625 MHz | 668 MHz |
CUDA cores | 32 | |
Floating-point performance | 99.2 gflops | 427.5 gflops |
Gigaflops | 148 | |
Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | 55 nm |
Pipelines | 32 | 320 |
Texture fill rate | 10 GTexel / s | 10.69 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt | 75 Watt |
Transistor count | 314 million | 666 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | MXM-II | AGP 8x |
Laptop size | medium sized | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.0 | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 512 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 25.6 GB / s | 53.0 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1600 MHz | 1656 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR2, GDDR3 | GDDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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CUDA | ||
PCI-E 2.0 |