ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6230
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
VS
AMD Radeon HD 6230

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6230. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

486
Place in performance rating
1050
RV6xx
Architecture
TeraScale 2
M88
Code name
Park
Laptop
Type
Desktop
1 September 2008 (13 years ago)
Release date
2 July 2011 (10 years ago)
M88-XT CF
GPU code name
Park
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6230 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

320
Pipelines
80
660 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
666 million
Transistor count
292 million
55 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
110 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
10.56
Texture fill rate
5.200
2x 422.4 gflops
Floating-point performance
104 gflops
640
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
666 million
Number of transistors
292 million
110 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
19 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6230.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
no data
Length
168 mm
no data
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
no data

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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6230 can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
DDR2
512 MB
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
850 MHz
Memory clock speed
1334 MHz
54.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
-
Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6230, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
no data
HDMI
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6230. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

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

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and AMD Radeon HD 6230 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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 or AMD Radeon HD 6230 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
AMD Radeon HD 6230
Death Stranding (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
AMD Radeon HD 6230
F1 2020 (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
AMD Radeon HD 6230
Gears Tactics (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
AMD Radeon HD 6230
Doom Eternal (2020) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
AMD Radeon HD 6230
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 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

5.2% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (320 vs 80)

More memory bandwidth (54.4 GB/s vs 10.67 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 6230

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 55 nm)

Less power consumption (19 Watt vs 110 Watt)

So, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 or AMD Radeon HD 6230?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 .

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 versus AMD Radeon HD 6230 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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