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
GPU 1
GPU 2
209
432
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
120
92
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 1377 1379
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