NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
- Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
- Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 660 MHz
- 4.7x more texture fill rate: 49.2 billion / sec vs 10.56 GTexel / s
- 2.4x more pipelines: 768 vs 320
- 4.3x better floating-point performance: 1,825 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
- 9.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5335 vs 548
- 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 643 vs 288
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 20 August 2015 vs 4 June 2008 |
Core clock speed | 1024 MHz vs 660 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 49.2 billion / sec vs 10.56 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 768 vs 320 |
Floating-point performance | 1,825 gflops vs 422.4 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 55 nm |
Maximum memory size | 2 GB vs 512 MB |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 5335 vs 548 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 643 vs 288 |
Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
- Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 55 Watt vs 90 Watt
- 283.3x more memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 6.6 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 55 Watt vs 90 Watt |
Memory clock speed | 1700 MHz vs 6.6 GB/s |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 5335 | 548 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 643 | 288 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 16715 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 60.473 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 758.865 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 4.279 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 29.738 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 231.508 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 6803 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3697 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3356 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 6803 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3697 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3356 | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 1862 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | TeraScale |
Code name | GM206 | M88 |
Launch date | 20 August 2015 | 4 June 2008 |
Launch price (MSRP) | $159 | |
Place in performance rating | 540 | 537 |
Price now | $194.44 | |
Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Value for money (0-100) | 30.06 | |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1188 MHz | |
Core clock speed | 1024 MHz | 660 MHz |
CUDA cores | 768 | |
Floating-point performance | 1,825 gflops | 422.4 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 55 nm |
Pipelines | 768 | 320 |
Texture fill rate | 49.2 billion / sec | 10.56 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 90 Watt | 55 Watt |
Transistor count | 2,940 million | 666 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Audio input for HDMI | Internal | |
Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 | No outputs |
G-SYNC support | ||
HDCP | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Multi monitor support | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Length | 7.938" (20.2 cm) | |
Recommended system power (PSU) | 350 Watt | |
SLI options | 2x | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pins | |
Laptop size | large | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 10.1 |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 512 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 105.6 GB / s | 54.4 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 6.6 GB/s | 1700 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | 0 |
Technologies |
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3D Vision | ||
Adaptive Vertical Sync | ||
CUDA | ||
GameStream | ||
GameWorks | ||
GeForce Experience | ||
GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
GPU Boost | ||
SLI | ||
Surround | ||
PowerPlay 7.0 |