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
GPU 1
GPU 2
5335
548
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
643
288
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
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

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