AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 14.7x more texture fill rate: 80 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
  • 10.7x more pipelines: 1280 vs 120
  • 15.7x better floating-point performance: 2,560 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 20x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4638 vs 232
  • Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 592 vs 331
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 March 2012 vs 7 January 2008
Texture fill rate 80 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 120
Floating-point performance 2,560 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4638 vs 232
PassMark - G2D Mark 592 vs 331

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

  • 7.5x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4638
232
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
592
331
Name AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670
PassMark - G3D Mark 4638 232
PassMark - G2D Mark 592 331
Geekbench - OpenCL 77430
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 294.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1651

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale
Code name Pitcairn M86
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date 5 March 2012 7 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Place in performance rating 476 478
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,560 gflops 163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1280 120
Stream Processors 1024
Texture fill rate 80 GTexel / s 5.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 378 million
Core clock speed 680 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2 / GDDR3 / GDDR4
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync