ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon Pro 580

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

AMD Radeon Pro 580

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 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 185W)

AMD Radeon Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580 +1210%

5.53 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

Radeon Pro 580

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2017

M8x

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1695 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

217.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

36

-

320

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

185W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon E6760 MXM

2

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

3

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540

4

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA P106M

5

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

6

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon R7 M265

7

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

8

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 810A

9

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD FirePro S7100X

10

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early