Radeon HD 8650D IGP vs Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Radeon HD 8650D IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 28 Dec 2013
Radeon HD 8650D IGP
Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jun 2008
Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8650D IGP

41 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 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8650D IGPRadeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
GPU NameScrapper ()vsRV670 (RV670 XT)
Fab Process32 nmvs55 nm
Die Size246 mm²vs192 mm²
Transistors1,303 millionvs666 million
Shaders384vs320
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock720 MHzvs777 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8650D IGPRadeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR4
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1126 MHz
2252 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8650D IGPRadeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
TDP65 wattsvs106 watts
Release Date28 Dec 2013vs12 Jun 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8650D IGP
    5.76 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
    12.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8650D IGP
    17.30 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
    12.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8650D IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
    72.10 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8650D IGP
    553.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
    497.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better