NVIDIA NVS 300 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

NVIDIA NVS 300

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Lower TDP (18W vs 165W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.66GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2 +1253%

0.528 TFLOPS

NVS 300

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2008

NVS

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

790 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

18W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

R680

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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