ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX 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 GT 520MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (20W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 +143%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce GT 520MX

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2011

M8x

Generation

GeForce 500M

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

1.800 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

172.8 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

14.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GF119

-

GPU Variant

N12P-GVR-B-A1

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

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