NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
19.2x more pipelines: 1536 vs 80
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm

Launch date	8 November 2013 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines	1536 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	33.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1002.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	54.752
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	126.579
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6912
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	6710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	6703
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	117
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	108.2
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	119.7
PassMark - G3D Mark		94
PassMark - G2D Mark		206

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Mac Edition	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	RV6xx
Code name	GK104	M82-XT + RS780M
Launch date	8 November 2013	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	879	881
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	797 MHz
Core clock speed	771 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1536	80
Texture fill rate	102.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	362 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory		0