NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 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, 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 928 MHz vs 660 MHz
Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
Around 69% better floating-point performance: 1,425 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
5.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2528 vs 478
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 411 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	9 October 2012 vs 1 September 2008
Core clock speed	928 MHz vs 660 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 640
Floating-point performance	1,425 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2528 vs 478
PassMark - G2D Mark	411 vs 187

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

3.6x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 59.2 billion / sec
340x more memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 5.4 GB/s

Texture fill rate	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 59.2 billion / sec
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 5.4 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2528

478

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

411

187

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	2528	478
PassMark - G2D Mark	411	187
Geekbench - OpenCL	7973
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	23.168
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	592.345
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.141
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.29
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	47.404
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3948
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3948
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	881

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK106	M88
Launch date	9 October 2012	1 September 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$149
Place in performance rating	876	879
Price now	$169.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	18.72
Technical info
Core clock speed	928 MHz	660 MHz
CUDA cores	768
Floating-point performance	1,425 gflops	2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	768	640
Texture fill rate	59.2 billion / sec	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	110 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	2,540 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One Mini...	No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	86.4 GB / s	2x 54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5.4 GB/s	1700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
TXAA