ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD FirePro M3900

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

AMD FirePro M3900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M3900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M3900 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (20W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 +75%

0.422 TFLOPS

FirePro M3900

0.24 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

FirePro M3900

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2010

M8x

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

2

-

320

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

Seymour

-

GPU Variant

Seymour GL

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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