ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3470

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

1080 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 +3050%

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Oct 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

15.20GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

14

-

40

Shading Units

1120

4

TMUs

56

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

3.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

64.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

151W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

Barts

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

2

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

3

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

4

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100

5

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2

6

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

7

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs ATI FirePro 2450 Multi View PCIe x1

8

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

9

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

10

ATI Radeon HD 3470 vs AMD FirePro D300

Related News

1

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

2

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

3

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

4

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

5

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

6

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

7

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

8

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

9

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

10

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes