ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 vs vs Vivante GC1000+ Dual-Core

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400

This is a DirectX 10 graphic card from ATI and direct competitor to the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS graphic card for laptops. This would mean that the card is able to represent all modern DirectX 9 games in medium resolutions and without Antialiasing without motion interruptions. Demanding DirectX 10 games may only run in low settings and resolutions.

Due to the Avivo HD videoengine  the Chip accelerates HD Video like HD DVD, Blu-ray (Video Decoder for H.264/AVC, VC-1, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX Video Codecs). Furthermore PowerPlay 7.0 brings longer battery runtimes. Furthermore, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 is certified for Windows Vista (for the Aero user interface).

Technically, the chip owns 40 stream processors which are able to manage vertex-, geometric or pixelshader operations. Therefore DirectX 10.0 and Shader Model 4.0 are supported. To be mentioned is also the 256 bit wide ringbus.

Compared to the Destkop HD 2400 Pro the Mobility version has a lower clock speed (450 versus 525 Mhz core speed) and is, therefore, a bit slower.

Vivante GC1000+ Dual-Core

The Vivante GC1000+ Dual-Core is an integrated graphics card for ARM based SoCs. It supports Android, Windows Mobile 6, Windows CE and Linux and the standards OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL 2.1, OpenVG 1.1, and DirectX 11 (9_3). The chip is can be clocked with up to 600 MHz (28nm LP) or 800 MHz (28nm HPM). The theoretical calculating power of the GPU is 50 Mio triangles / s, 650 Mio pixels / s and 12 GFLOPS (according to cnx-software.com). According to Vivante however the GC1000 is capable of 345 to 460 Mio triangles /s and 11 to 15 GFLOPS.