ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP 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

Lower TDP (106W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +447%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon R600

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Cypress

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

334 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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