AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +498%

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

4

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV670

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

140W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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