NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 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 770

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 58% higher core clock speed: 1046 MHz vs 660 MHz
12.7x more texture fill rate: 134 billion / sec vs 10.56 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 320
7.9x better floating-point performance: 3,333 gflops vs 422.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
4.1x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 1700 MHz
10.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5918 vs 548
Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 560 vs 288

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	30 May 2013 vs 4 June 2008
Core clock speed	1046 MHz vs 660 MHz
Texture fill rate	134 billion / sec vs 10.56 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 320
Floating-point performance	3,333 gflops vs 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5918 vs 548
PassMark - G2D Mark	560 vs 288

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

4.2x lower typical power consumption: 55 Watt vs 230 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	55 Watt vs 230 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5918

548

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

560

288

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
PassMark - G3D Mark	5918	548
PassMark - G2D Mark	560	288
Geekbench - OpenCL	17952
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	49.824
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1089.67
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	44.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	103.884
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2136

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK104	M88
Launch date	30 May 2013	4 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$399
Place in performance rating	534	537
Price now	$449.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	15.45
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1085 MHz
Core clock speed	1046 MHz	660 MHz
CUDA cores	1536
Floating-point performance	3,333 gflops	422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	98 °C
Pipelines	1536	320
Texture fill rate	134 billion / sec	10.56 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	230 Watt	55 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...	No outputs
G-SYNC support
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	10.5" (26.7 cm)
Minimum recommended system power	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	One 8-pin and one 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	224.3 GB / s	54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
PhysX
TXAA
PowerPlay 7.0