ATI Radeon HD 3870 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

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ATI Radeon HD 3870 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1546MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 +2447%

12.66 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870

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Radeon RX Vega 64

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Aug 2017

Radeon R600

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1247 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

64

320

Shading Units

4096

16

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.94 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Vega 10

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

106W

TDP

295W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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