NVIDIA GeForce 810A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 810A and ATI Mobility 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 810A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 810A

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 17% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 660 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
7.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 110 Watt
Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 655 vs 478
Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 277 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 July 2014 vs 1 September 2008
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 660 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 110 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	655 vs 478
PassMark - G2D Mark	277 vs 187

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

17x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 12.4 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 192
2.8x better floating-point performance: 2x 422.4 gflops vs 297.6 gflops

Texture fill rate	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 192
Floating-point performance	2x 422.4 gflops vs 297.6 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 810A
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

655

478

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

277

187

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 810A	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	655	478
PassMark - G2D Mark	277	187
Geekbench - OpenCL	1828

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 810A	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GK208	M88
Launch date	22 July 2014	1 September 2008
Place in performance rating	895	897
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	660 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops	2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	192	640
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count		666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	2x 54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Shared memory		0