GeForce 8800 GTS 320 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking996not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.06no data
Power efficiency0.93no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV670G80
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 November 2007 (17 years ago)12 February 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$269 $269

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores32096
Core clock speed777 MHz513 MHz
Number of transistors666 million681 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt143 Watt
Texture fill rate12.4324.62
Floating-point processing power0.4973 TFLOPS0.2281 TFLOPS
ROPs1620
TMUs1624

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 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length241 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 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 typeGDDR4GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB320 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed1126 MHz792 MHz
Memory bandwidth72.06 GB/s63.36 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

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-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 November 2007 12 February 2007
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 320 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 143 Watt

ATI HD 3870 has an age advantage of 9 months, a 60% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 63.6% more advanced lithography process, and 34.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3870 and GeForce 8800 GTS 320. We've got no test results to judge.


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