ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W600

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

AMD FirePro W600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

FirePro W600 +54%

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon R600

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

8

-

320

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Cape Verde

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

123 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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