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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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: 5337 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	5337 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

GPU 1

GPU 2

5337

548

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

643

288

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
PassMark - G3D Mark	5337	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
Essentials
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
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
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
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
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
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
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround
PowerPlay 7.0