NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 660 MHz
Around 50% better floating-point performance: 1,271 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
2.4x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1700 MHz
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2593 vs 478
Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 271 vs 187

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 1 September 2008
Core clock speed	914 MHz vs 660 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,271 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
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2593 vs 478
PassMark - G2D Mark	271 vs 187

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

5.3x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 39.72 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 39.72 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2593

478

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

271

187

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	2593	478
PassMark - G2D Mark	271	187
Geekbench - OpenCL	10220
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2188
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2188
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3289
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3289

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	TeraScale
Code name	GM107	M88
Launch date	13 March 2015	1 September 2008
Place in performance rating	894	897
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	993 MHz
Core clock speed	914 MHz	660 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,271 gflops	2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	640	640
Texture fill rate	39.72 GTexel / s	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	64 GB / s	2x 54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0