ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A310
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Arc A310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A310 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1750MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (124.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 106W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
0.497 TFLOPS
Arc A310
+440%
2.688 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Oct 2022
Radeon R600
Generation
Alchemist
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1750 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1126 MHz
Memory Clock
1937 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
72.06GB/s
Bandwidth
124.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
Tensor Cores
96
-
RT Cores
6
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.00 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
56.00 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.376 TFLOPS
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
672.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
106W
TDP
30W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
DG2-128
RV670 XT
(215-0708005)
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
TeraScale
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
157 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
6.6
