AMD Radeon RX 470 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +1054%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

0.428 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

VS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jan 2008

Arctic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

4

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

RV670

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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