AMD Radeon HD 6520G + HD 7450M Dual Graphics vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6520G + HD 7450M Dual Graphics and ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements.

AMD Radeon HD 6520G + HD 7450M Dual Graphics

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6520G + HD 7450M Dual Graphics

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 50% higher pipelines: 480 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32+40nm nm vs 55 nm

Launch date	8 February 2012 vs 12 June 2008
Pipelines	480 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	32+40nm nm vs 55 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Around 94% higher core clock speed: 777 MHz vs 400 / 700 MHz
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2252 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	777 MHz vs 400 / 700 MHz
Memory clock speed	2252 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6520G + HD 7450M Dual Graphics	ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	TeraScale
Launch date	8 February 2012	12 June 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Code name		RV670
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 / 700 MHz	777 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32+40nm nm	55 nm
Pipelines	480	320
Floating-point performance		497.3 gflops
Texture fill rate		12.43 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		106 Watt
Transistor count		666 million
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	2252 MHz
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		72.1 GB / s
Memory type		GDDR4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin