NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 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: 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 11% higher core clock speed: 732 MHz vs 660 MHz
Around 55% better floating-point performance: 1,311.7 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 25% higher maximum memory size: 1280 MB vs 2x 512 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 3800 MHz vs 1700 MHz

Launch date	29 November 2011 vs 1 September 2008
Core clock speed	732 MHz vs 660 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,311.7 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1280 MB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3800 MHz vs 1700 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

5.1x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 41.0 GTexel / s
Around 43% higher pipelines: 640 vs 448
Around 91% lower typical power consumption: 110 Watt vs 210 Watt

Texture fill rate	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 41.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 448
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt vs 210 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	34.324
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1181.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.978
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	58.37
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	121.575
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4590
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2133
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3333
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4590
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2133
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3333
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4197
PassMark - G3D Mark		478
PassMark - G2D Mark		187

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GF110	M88
Launch date	29 November 2011	1 September 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$289
Place in performance rating	879	881
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	732 MHz	660 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,311.7 gflops	2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	448	640
Texture fill rate	41.0 GTexel / s	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	210 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB / s	2x 54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	320 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3800 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0