NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

ATI Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 2

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

230 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

106W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

RV670

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Celsius

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

1.5

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

Shader Model

4.1

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