ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M +256%

1.505 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2015

M8x

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1097 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GM107

-

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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