NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 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 860M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 21% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 660 MHz
Around 64% better floating-point performance: 1,389 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
Around 47% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 110 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 2x 512 MB
6.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3057 vs 478
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 March 2014 vs 1 September 2008
Core clock speed	797 MHz vs 660 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,389 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 110 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3057 vs 478
PassMark - G2D Mark	226 vs 187

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

4.9x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 43.4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 43.4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3057

478

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

187

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	3057	478
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	187
Geekbench - OpenCL	10435
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	22.828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	210.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.662
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	162.83
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1151

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale
Code name	GK104	M88
Launch date	10 March 2014	1 September 2008
Place in performance rating	877	880
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	915 MHz
Core clock speed	797 MHz	660 MHz
CUDA cores	1152 or 640
Floating-point performance	1,389 gflops	2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	640	640
Texture fill rate	43.4 GTexel / s	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support	Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support	Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support	Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s	2x 54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Standard memory configuration	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		1700 MHz
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA