Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1005not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.76no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameM88TU117B
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date4 June 2008 (16 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 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 cores320896
Core clock speed660 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistors666 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate10.5692.40
Floating-point processing power0.4224 TFLOPS2.957 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs1656

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed850 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth54.4 GB/s192.0 GB/s
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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2008 8 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 50 Watt

T1000 Mobile GDDR6 has an age advantage of 12 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 358.3% more advanced lithography process, and 10% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 3870 is a notebook graphics card while Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6 is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
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NVIDIA Quadro T1000 Mobile GDDR6
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