NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated85
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameRV670GN20-E7 GA104
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date12 June 2008 (15 years old)12 January 2021 (3 years old)
Current price$5.99 no data

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3206144
Core clock speed777 MHz780 - 1100 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1245 - 1710 MHz
Number of transistors666 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt150 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate12.43296.6
Floating-point performance497.3 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

Memory

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 typeGDDR4GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2252 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth72.06 GB/s384.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDAno data8.6

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 12 June 2008 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 16 GB
Pipelines / CUDA cores 320 6144
Memory bandwidth 72.06 384
Chip lithography 55 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 150 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile is a notebook one.


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