NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +1124%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

1920

Shading Units

320

120

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

R680

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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