ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +828%

3.92 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2016

M8x

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1664

16

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon R7 A360

2

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon R7 M350 2GB

3

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

4

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon HD 7450M

5

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile

6

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700S

7

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

8

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs Intel Arc A570M

9

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

10

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800S

Related News

1

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

2

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

3

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

4

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

5

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

6

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

7

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

8

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

9

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

10

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market