AMD Radeon HD 8530M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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AMD Radeon HD 8530M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8530M 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 HD 8530M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock700MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8530M +6%

0.448 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8530M

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Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

Solar System

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

4

320

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

448.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

28.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

M88

Mars S3 LE (216-0842054)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

55W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.1

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