AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

ATI Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1905MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 XT +1862%

9.754 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Nov 2007

Navi

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1605 MHz

Base Clock

-

1905 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

4

-

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

121.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

304.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

19.51 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.754 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

609.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

106W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

RV670

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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