GeForce GTX 295 and Radeon HD 3870 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 295 vs Radeon HD 3870 X2
GeForce GTX 295
1242
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
GeForce GTX 295
Radeon HD 3870 X2
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GT200B
R680
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2009
January 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
825 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
CUDA cores per GPU
240
-
Floating-point performance
2x 596.2 gflops
2x 528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
240
320
Power consumption (TDP)
289 Watt
165 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
92.2 billion/sec
13.20
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1792 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
896 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
1802 MHz
Memory bandwidth
223.8 GB/s
57.66 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
896 MB
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIHDMI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)
128bit
-