
Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and GeForce 210 - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 210
Architecture
RV6xx (2007−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
M88-XT
GT218
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
October 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
660 MHz
589 MHz
CUDA cores
-
16
Floating-point performance
422.4 gflops
39.36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
16
Power consumption (TDP)
55 Watt
30.5 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
10.56
4.160
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
850 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
8.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
DVIVGADisplayPort
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A