ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Boost Clock1420MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +1216%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2020

Radeon R600

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 8x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

36

-

320

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Polaris 20

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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

1.3

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs NVIDIA NVS 810

2

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs AMD Radeon RX Vega Nano

3

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs ATI Radeon HD 3410

4

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT

5

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 510 OEM

6

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

7

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465

8

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs Intel Xe DG1 SDV

9

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6

10

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP vs ATI Radeon X1600

Related News

1

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

2

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

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption