Radeon HD 3870 and GF117 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 vs GF117
Radeon HD 3870
572
GF117
571
Radeon HD 3870
GF117
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
RV670
GF117
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
777 MHz
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Floating-point performance
497.3 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
106 Watt
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Texture fill rate
12.43
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Memory type
GDDR4
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Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
2252 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
72.06 GB/s
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
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2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
PureVideo HD
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VP5