Radeon 780M vs ATI Rage Mobility-M3

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated299
Place by popularitynot in top-10047
Power efficiencyno data89.48
ArchitectureRage 4 (1998−1999)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameM3Phoenix
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 October 1999 (25 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a year 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 coresno data768
Core clock speed105 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2700 MHz
Number of transistors8 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology250 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate0.21129.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs232
TMUs248
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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).

InterfaceAGP 2xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed105 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth840.0 MB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

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 Connectors1x DB13W3Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 1999 6 December 2023
Chip lithography 250 nm 4 nm

Radeon 780M has an age advantage of 24 years, and a 6150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Rage Mobility-M3 and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Rage Mobility-M3 is a desktop card while Radeon 780M is a notebook one.


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ATI Rage Mobility-M3
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