ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz 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 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +765%

4.301 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon R600

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

32

-

320

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

352 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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