ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 320 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 25.28GB/s)

248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 320 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (43W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition +164%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 320 OEM

0.188 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 320 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Feb 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 300

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

25.28GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

320

Shading Units

72

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.96 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

187.5 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

43W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GT215

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GT215-250-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

2

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

3

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

4

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

5

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro W5700

6

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP

7

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5470

8

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

9

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V4900

10

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

Related News

1

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

2

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

3

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

4

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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