NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

3264 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +1976%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

0.497 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Unknown

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR4

3072bit

Memory Bus

256bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

320

224

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

24 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

RV670

-

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

4.1

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