AMD Radeon RX 560 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1226MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 XT +732%

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1074 MHz

Base Clock

-

1226 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

4

-

1792

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

137.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

4.394 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.394 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

274.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

R680

Polaris 10 LE1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

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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