ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro V520

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro V520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 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 225W)

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520 +1383%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro V520

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2020

Radeon R600

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

36

-

320

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

64

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Navi 12

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Navi 12

TeraScale

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

Unknown

192 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5

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