Radeon HD 2400 vs Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 2400 |
86 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition . |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition |
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 2400 | | Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition | |
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GPU Name | RV610 () | vs | RV670 (RV670 XT) |
Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 55 nm |
Die Size | 85 mm² | vs | 192 mm² |
Transistors | 180 million | vs | 666 million |
Shaders | 40 | vs | 320 |
Compute Units | 2 | vs | 4 |
Core clock | 398 MHz | vs | 777 MHz |
ROPs | 4 | vs | 16 |
TMUs | 4 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 2400 | | Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition | |
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Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR4 |
Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
Memory Speed | 495 MHz
990 MHz effective | vs | 1126 MHz
2252 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 256 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 2400 | | Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition | |
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TDP | 20 watts | vs | 106 watts |
Release Date | 19 Feb 2008 | vs | 12 Jun 2008 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better