ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI 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

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (106W vs 150W)

Score

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2004

Radeon R600

Generation

Quadro FX Rankine

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 4x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

NV41

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

TeraScale

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

130 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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