ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 310M

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce 310M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 310M 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 10.67GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 310M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (14W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 +761%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce 310M

0.049 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce 310M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2010

M8x

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

320

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.96 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GT218

-

GPU Variant

N11M-GE1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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