ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3870 X2
0.528 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+1124%
6.463 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2008
Release Date
Dec 2018
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
901 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.66GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
320
Shading Units
1920
16
TMUs
120
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
13.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
13.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
528.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
105.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
165W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
R680
GPU Name
GP104
R680 XT
(215-0708017)
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
16 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
4.1
Shader Model
6.4
