ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 800A

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce 800A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 800A 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)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 800A 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (15W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 +363%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce 800A

0.091 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce 800A

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2014

M8x

Generation

GeForce 800A

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

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

320

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

950.0 MPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.800 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.20 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

7.600 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

15W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GF119

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

2

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

3

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon R7 A265

4

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

5

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

6

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 920M

7

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X

8

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800S

9

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

10

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster