ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 vs GeForce 9800M GTX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1066not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.05no data
Power efficiency1.10no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RV6xx (2008−2010)
GPU code nameG92no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 July 2008 (16 years ago)1 August 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$328.50 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores112no data
CUDA cores per GPU112no data
Core clock speed500 MHzno data
Number of transistors754 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate28.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.28 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops420no data
ROPs16no data
TMUs56no data

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
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed800 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno data
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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)no data
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 July 2008 1 August 2010

ATI Mobility HD 3400 has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9800M GTX and Mobility Radeon HD 3400. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
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