ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +415%

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Pitcairn

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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