AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3650 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1928 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +2077%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3650 AGP

0.174 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 3650 AGP

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2008

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon R600(HD 3600)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

3

-

2048

Shading Units

120

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.900 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.800 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

174.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

Floppy

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV635

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

RV635 PRO AGP (215-0682020)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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