ATI Radeon HD 3610 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3610 and ATI Radeon HD 5870 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.

ATI Radeon HD 3610

ATI Radeon HD 5870

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3610

5.4x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 188 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 188 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870

Around 43% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 594 MHz
14.3x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
13.3x more pipelines: 1600 vs 120
19.1x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 142.56 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
6.1x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 792 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 594 MHz
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s vs 4.75 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1600 vs 120
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops vs 142.56 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 792 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 3610
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5870

Name	ATI Radeon HD 3610	ATI Radeon HD 5870
PassMark - G3D Mark		2220
PassMark - G2D Mark		409
Geekbench - OpenCL		1853
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		18.789
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1339.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		43.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		245.813
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3610	ATI Radeon HD 5870
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale 2
Code name	RV630	Cypress
Launch date	24 September 2009	23 September 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	798
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	594 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	142.56 gflops	2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	120	1600
Texture fill rate	4.75 GTexel / s	68.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	188 Watt
Transistor count	390 million	2,154 million
Boost clock speed		850 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Length		282 mm
API support
DirectX	10.0	11
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	12.67 GB / s	153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	792 MHz	4800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity