Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs GeForce GTS 250 |
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| Is dual GPU | Yes | vs | No | About half of graphics cards are dual GPU | |||
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 115.32 GB/s | vs | 73.6 GB/s | More than 55% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Slightly higher clock speed | 825 MHz | vs | 750 MHz | 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 26.4 GPixel/s | vs | 12 GPixel/s | Around 2.2x higher pixel rate | |||
| Much wider memory bus | 512 bit | vs | 256 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 1,056 GFLOPS | vs | 483.8 GFLOPS | Around 2.2x better floating-point performance | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 16 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| More shading units | 640 | vs | 128 | 512 more shading units | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 2,300 MHz | vs | 1,802 MHz | Around 30% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher texture rate | 48 GTexel/s | vs | 26.4 GTexel/s | More than 80% higher texture rate | |||
| More texture mapping units | 64 | vs | 32 | Twice as many texture mapping units | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,150 MHz | vs | 901 MHz | Around 30% higher memory clock speed | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs GeForce GTS 250
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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