ATI Radeon HD 3200 vs GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking117not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.77no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLIRS780
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)4 March 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384040
Core clock speed1506 MHz494 MHz
Boost clock speed1683 MHzno data
Number of transistors14400 Million180 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.976
Floating-point processing powerno data0.03952 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed8000 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_110.0 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.0
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 August 2016 4 March 2008
Chip lithography 16 nm 65 nm

GTX 1070 SLI has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 306.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and Radeon HD 3200. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI
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