NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 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), Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 10% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 4.4 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 30 Watt
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 145 vs 141
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 71 vs 33

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 December 2009 vs 7 January 2008
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 30 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	145 vs 141
PassMark - G2D Mark	71 vs 33

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

7.5x more pipelines: 120 vs 16
2.7x better floating-point performance: 120 gflops vs 44 gflops
Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1586 vs 1023
Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1586 vs 1023

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	120 vs 16
Floating-point performance	120 gflops vs 44 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1586 vs 1023
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1586 vs 1023

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

141

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1023

1586

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1023

1586

Name	NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
PassMark - G3D Mark	145	141
PassMark - G2D Mark	71	33
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1023	1586
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1023	1586
Geekbench - OpenCL	2855

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT218	M86
Launch date	1 December 2009	7 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$169
Place in performance rating	1611	1613
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	44 gflops	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	16	120
Texture fill rate	4.4 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	378 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2 / GDDR3 / GDDR4
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCI-E 2.0