ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M 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 51.20GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (28W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 +75%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2009

M8x

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

28W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GT215

-

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

144 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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