ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 120W)

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +769%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2016

Radeon R600

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

28

-

320

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Ellesmere

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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