ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA NVS 4200M

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA NVS 4200M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 1024MB VRAM NVS 4200M 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 12.80GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 4200M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (25W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 +170%

0.422 TFLOPS

NVS 4200M

0.156 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

NVS 4200M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Feb 2011

M8x

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

320

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

GF119

-

GPU Variant

N12P-NS1-S-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

79 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

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