NVIDIA Quadro VX 200 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro VX 200 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Quadro VX 200

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro VX 200

9.3x more texture fill rate: 25.2 GTexel / s vs 2.72 GTexel / s
2.8x more pipelines: 112 vs 40
4.6x better floating-point performance: 252 gflops vs 54.4 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s vs 2.72 GTexel / s
Pipelines	112 vs 40
Floating-point performance	252 gflops vs 54.4 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Around 51% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
6.3x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 75 Watt

Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro VX 200
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Name	NVIDIA Quadro VX 200	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
PassMark - G3D Mark		93
PassMark - G2D Mark		250

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro VX 200	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G92	M82
Launch date	8 January 2008	7 January 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	673
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	252 gflops	54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	112	40
Texture fill rate	25.2 GTexel / s	2.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory		0