ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation 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 130W)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2175MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

5824 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +5278%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2023

Radeon R600

Generation

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

320

Shading Units

6144

16

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

AD104

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

5 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

4.1

Shader Model

6.8

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