Quadro FX 3800M and Radeon HD 6870M - video card comparison
Quadro FX 3800M
Radeon HD 6870M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N10E-GLM4
Granville-PRO
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Laptop
Release date
December 2009
January 2011
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Core clock speed
675 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
422.4 gflops
1,080.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
800
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
43.20
27.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A