NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2535MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

17856 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 6000 Ada +17352%

92.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada

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Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2022

Release Date

Jan 2008

Quadro Ada

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2175 MHz

Base Clock

-

2535 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

18176

Shading Units

320

568

TMUs

16

192

ROPs

16

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

96 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

486.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

1440 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

92.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

92.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

1440 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

R680

AD102

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

55 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

165W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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