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).

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

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

GPU 1

GPU 2

209

432

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

120

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1901

2417

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1901

2417

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT	ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP
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
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G96	RV670
Launch date	29 July 2008	3 January 2008
Place in performance rating	1374	1376
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
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
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
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
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0