Mobility Radeon HD 3870: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.18% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 3870 sales 4 June 2008. This is a TeraScale architecture notebook card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.85 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 54.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 55 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 3870: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1071
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency1.73of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameM88
Market segmentLaptop
Release date4 June 2008 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Mobility Radeon HD 3870's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 3870's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed660 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors666 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)55 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate10.56of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.4224 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs16of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L2 Cache256 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 3870: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed850 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth54.4 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon HD 3870. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 3870, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Mobility Radeon HD 3870. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

ATI Mobility HD 3870
1.18

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

ATI Mobility HD 3870 3458

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Mobility Radeon HD 3870 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Hogwarts Legacy 6−7

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 1−2
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Far Cry 5 3−4
Fortnite 3−4
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
Forza Horizon 5 1−2
Hogwarts Legacy 6−7
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 9−10
Valorant 30−35

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 1−2
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 27−30
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Dota 2 16−18
Far Cry 5 3−4
Fortnite 3−4
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
Forza Horizon 5 1−2
Grand Theft Auto V 1−2
Hogwarts Legacy 6−7
Metro Exodus 2−3
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 9−10
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 7−8
Valorant 30−35

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 1−2
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Dota 2 16−18
Far Cry 5 3−4
Forza Horizon 4 8−9
Hogwarts Legacy 6−7
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 9−10
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 7−8
Valorant 30−35

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 3−4

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 4−5
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 8−9
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 12−14
Valorant 4−5

1440p
Ultra

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 1−2
Forza Horizon 4 3−4
Hogwarts Legacy 1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 2−3

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 14−16
Valorant 6−7

4K
Ultra

Dota 2 1−2
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 2−3

4K
Epic

Fortnite 2−3

Closest competitors

Mobility Radeon HD 3870's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Mobility Radeon HD 3870 is GeForce GT 630M, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Mobility Radeon HD 3870:

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 100
GeForce 615 97.46

Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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