ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs Quadro NVS 110M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1498not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.89no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG72RV670
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date1 June 2006 (19 years ago)12 June 2008 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores7320
Core clock speed300 MHz777 MHz
Boost clock speed300 MHzno data
Number of transistors112 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt106 Watt
Texture fill rate1.20012.43
Floating-point processing powerno data0.4973 TFLOPS
ROPs216
TMUs416
L2 Cacheno data256 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR4
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed300 MHz1126 MHz
Memory bandwidth4.8 GB/s72.06 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model3.04.1
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2006 12 June 2008
Chip lithography 90 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 106 Watt

NVS 110M has 960% lower power consumption.

ATI HD 3870 Mac Edition, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 110M and Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 110M is a mobile workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition is a desktop one.

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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M
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