ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850
What is the difference between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and ATI Radeon HD 3850. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| M88 | GPU Name | RV670 |
| TeraScale | Architecture | TeraScale |
| TSMC | Foundry | TSMC |
| 55 nm | Process Size | 55 nm |
| 666 million | Transistors | 666 million |
| 192 mm² | Die Size | 192 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Jun 4th, 2008 | Release Date | Nov 19th, 2007 |
| M8x (Mobility HD 3800) | Family | Radeon R600 (HD 3800) |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| M7x | Predecessor | Radeon R500 PCIe |
| PCIe 2.0 x16 | Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Memory
| 512 MB | Memory Size | 512 MB |
| GDDR3 | Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| 256 bit | Memory Bus | 256 bit |
| 54.40 GB/s | Bandwidth | 53.12 GB/s |
Performance
| 10.56 GPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 10.69 GPixel/s |
| 10.56 GTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 10.69 GTexel/s |
| 422.4 GFLOPS | FP32 (float) performance | 427.5 GFLOPS |
| 84.48 GFLOPS (1:5) | FP64 (double) performance | 85.50 GFLOPS (1:5) |
Clock Speeds
| 850 MHz 1700 Mbps effective | Memory Clock | 830 MHz 1660 Mbps effective |
| 660 MHz | GPU Clock | 668 MHz |
Render Config
| 320 | Shading Units | 320 |
| 16 | TMUs | 16 |
| 16 | ROPs | 16 |
| 4 | Compute Units | 4 |
| 256 KB | L2 Cache | 256 KB |
Board Design
| 55 W | Thermal design power (TDP) | 75 W |
| No outputs | Display Connectors | 2x DVI 1x S-Video |
API support
| 10.1 (10_1) | DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) |
| 3.3 | OpenGL | 3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial) |
| N/A | OpenCL | N/A |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |
| 4.1 | Shader Model | 4.1 |