ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 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 48.06GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce MX250 's Advantages

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce MX250 +88%

0.797 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

GeForce MX250

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Unknown

M8x

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

937 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

320

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.61 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.91 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.46 GFLOPS

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

797.2 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.91 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GP108B

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

74 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

6.1

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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