AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 55W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9173 PCIe +195%

1.248 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Jun 2008

Embedded

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

-

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

4

-

512

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

55W

-

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

M88

E9170

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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