ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M 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 28.80GB/s)

176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (35W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 +8%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce GT 555M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2012

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

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

320

Shading Units

144

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.700 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.20 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

388.8 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GF116

-

GPU Variant

N12E-GE2-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

238 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 AMD Radeon HD 7350M

2

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

3

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M

4

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

5

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

6

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max Q

7

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

8

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

9

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition

10

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M

Related News

1

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

2

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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