AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

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AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (19W vs 106W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP +148%

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

667 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

4

160

Shading Units

320

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

5.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

200.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

RV670

Caicos PRO

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

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Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

106W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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