Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs GeForce 9500M G
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500M G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Mobility Radeon HD 3870 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9500M G Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 55W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Mobility Radeon HD 3870
+955%
422
GeForce 9500M G
40
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jun 2008
M8x
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
320
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
8
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
10.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
422.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
40.00 GFLOPS
84.48 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
55W
TDP
20W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
M88
GPU Name
G96
-
GPU Variant
NB9P-GE
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
