AMD Radeon HD 8850M vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8850M and ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 2x 512 MB
• Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1802 MHz
• Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 973 vs 709
• 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 224

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

• Around 43% higher core clock speed: 825 MHz vs 575 MHz
• 8.5x more texture fill rate: 2x 13.2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 25 GTexel / s
• Around 32% better floating-point performance: 2x 528.0 gflops vs 800.0 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8850M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	973 709
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	502 224
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3323 3336
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3323 3336

Compare specifications (specs)