NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945A and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 945A 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1189MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (33W vs 55W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 945A +116%

0.913 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce 945A

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900A

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1189 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

40.10GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

384

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.512 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

28.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

913.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

28.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

55W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

M88

-

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.666 billion

Unknown

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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