NVIDIA A16 PCIe vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA A16 PCIe ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A16 PCIe +773%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

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Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

Tesla

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

885 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1812 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

231.9GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

1280

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

54.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

67.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

4.339 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.339 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

135.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

RV670

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GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.666 billion

Unknown

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

106W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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