ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 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 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +373%

1.997 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 2014

M8x

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

16

-

320

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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