ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition 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)

ATI Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (64W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition +93%

0.96 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 5670 640SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jul 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

8

-

320

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

960.0 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

64W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Juniper

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Juniper CE

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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