
GeForce 7950 GT AGP and Radeon HD 3870 AGP - video card comparison
GeForce 7950 GT AGP
Radeon HD 3870 AGP
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G71
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
-
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x Molex
1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
500 MHz
777 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.00
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
2.3 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3 (full)
Shader Model3.04.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A