ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1226MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT +784%

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2019

Radeon R600

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1074 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

28

-

320

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Ellesmere

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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