NVIDIA GeForce MX350 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX350 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce MX350

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX350

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1354 MHz vs 580 MHz
5062.5x more texture fill rate: 46.98 GTexel/s vs 9.28 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 640 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 55 nm
Around 75% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 35 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 1752 MHz (7008 MHz effective) vs 1500 MHz
7.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2807 vs 366

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 Feb 2020 vs 4 June 2008
Core clock speed	1354 MHz vs 580 MHz
Texture fill rate	46.98 GTexel/s vs 9.28 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 35 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	1752 MHz (7008 MHz effective) vs 1500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2807 vs 366

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 248 vs 235

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	248 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX350
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2807

366

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

235

248

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX350	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
PassMark - G3D Mark	2807	366
PassMark - G2D Mark	235	248
Geekbench - OpenCL	13562
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4655
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4655
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1247

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX350	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale
Code name	GP107	M88
Launch date	10 Feb 2020	4 June 2008
Place in performance rating	654	694
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1468 MHz
Core clock speed	1354 MHz	580 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	55 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	58.72 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	29.36 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.879 TFLOPS
Pipelines	640	320
Pixel fill rate	23.49 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	46.98 GTexel/s	9.28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	3300 million	666 million
Floating-point performance		371.2 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	56.06 GB/s	48.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1752 MHz (7008 MHz effective)	1500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
API support
DirectX		10.1
OpenGL		3.3