ATI Radeon HD 3870 vs R5 M230 Rebrand

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated996
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.06
Power efficiencyno data0.93
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameSunRV670
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)19 November 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$269

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores320320
Core clock speed750 MHz777 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data106 Watt
Texture fill rate16.5012.43
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPS0.4973 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2016

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeDDR3GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1126 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s72.06 GB/s

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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 19 November 2007
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm

R5 M230 Rebrand has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand and Radeon HD 3870. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand is a notebook card while Radeon HD 3870 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand
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