
Radeon HD 3870 and GeForce 7200 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 vs GeForce 7200 GS
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 7200 GS
24
Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 7200 GS
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
RV670
G72
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
January 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
777 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
497.3 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
112 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
-
Power consumption (TDP)
106 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
12.43
1.800
Memory type
GDDR4
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2252 MHz
668 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72.06 GB/s
5.344 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A