NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 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

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (106W vs 108W)

Score

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

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Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2005

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 7 PCIe

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G70

GPU Name

RV670

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.302 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

333 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

108W

TDP

106W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.1

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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