ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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 16.80GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (20W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 +113%

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2018

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1152 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

DDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

320

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

20W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GP108

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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