Radeon HD 3870 AGP and GeForce MX250 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3870 AGP
GeForce MX250
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
RV670
N17S-G2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
-
February 2019
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1582 MHz
Core clock speed
777 MHz
1518 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
384
Power consumption (TDP)
106 Watt
10/25 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.43
24.91
Memory type
GDDR4
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2.3 GB/s
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72.06 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
Shader Model
4.16.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2