NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M and ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GF117GPU NameRV670
N15V-GMModel numberRV670 XT
(215-0708005)
Fermi 2.0ArchitectureTeraScale
TSMCFoundryTSMC
28 nmProcess Size55 nm
585 millionTransistors666 million
116 mm²Die Size192 mm²

Graphics Card

Nov 27th, 2013Release DateJun 12th, 2008
GeForce 800MFamilyRadeon R600
(HD 3800)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 700MPredecessorRadeon R500 PCIe
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size512 MB
DDR3Memory TypeGDDR4
64 bitMemory Bus256 bit
14.40 GB/sBandwidth72.06 GB/s

Performance

3.100 GPixel/sPixel fillrate12.43 GPixel/s
12.40 GTexel/sTexture fillrate12.43 GTexel/s
297.6 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance497.3 GFLOPS
24.80 GFLOPS (1:12)FP64 (double) performance99.46 GFLOPS (1:5)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory Clock1126 MHz
2.3 Gbps effective
775 MHzGPU Clock777 MHz

Render Config

96Shading Units320
16TMUs16
8ROPs16
128 KBL2 Cache256 KB

Board Design

15 WThermal design power (TDP)106 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX10.1 (10_1)
4.6OpenGL3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1OpenCLN/A
N/AVulkanN/A
5.1Shader Model4.1