ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs ATI Mobility X1800

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1364
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.39
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameM58M82
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2006 (18 years ago)7 January 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1840
Core clock speed450 MHz680 MHz
Boost clock speed450 MHzno data
Number of transistors321 million181 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data12 Watt
Texture fill rate5.4002.720
Floating-point processing powerno data0.0544 TFLOPS
ROPs124
TMUs124

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-IIIMXM-II

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR2
Maximum RAM amount256 MB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)10.1
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2006 7 January 2008
Chip lithography 90 nm 55 nm

ATI Mobility HD 3470 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

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