ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4860

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4860 +69%

0.896 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jan 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

4

-

640

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

896.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

179.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

165W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

R680

RV790 GT

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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