AMD Cedar
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
AMD Cedar
VS
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cedar and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
669
TeraScale 2
Architecture
RV6xx
Cedar
Code name
M88
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
1 March 2008 (13 years ago)
$17.81
Price now
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Cedar
GPU code name
M88-XT
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cedar and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

80
Pipelines
320
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Core clock speed
660 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
666 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
55 Watt
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Texture fill rate
10.56
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Floating-point performance
422.4 gflops
80
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
292 million
Number of transistors
666 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
55 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cedar and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870.

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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cedar and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
850 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cedar and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Cedar and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 is the additional functionality.

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PowerPlay 7.0
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cedar and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cedar and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cedar or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cedar
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cedar
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cedar
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cedar
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cedar
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cedar

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 55 nm)

Advantages of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

3.33% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (320 vs 80)

So, AMD Cedar or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 .

AMD Cedar versus ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cedar
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870