Radeon HD 3870 X2 and GeForce GT 440 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs GeForce GT 440
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
GeForce GT 440
793
Radeon HD 3870 X2
GeForce GT 440
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
R680
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
February 2011
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
825 MHz
810 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
2x 528.0 gflops
311.04 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
65 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
98 °C
Texture fill rate
13.20
13.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1802 MHz
1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
57.66 GB/s
28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5)
Standard memory config per GPU
-
1 GB GDDR5 or 2 GB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMIVGADual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.2
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A