AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560DX +323%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Nov 2007

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

4

896

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

RV670

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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