NVIDIA TITAN RTX vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM TITAN RTX 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 TITAN RTX 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

4288 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 280W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

TITAN RTX +2989%

16.31 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

TITAN RTX

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Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1350 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

672.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

72

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

4608

Shading Units

320

288

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

576

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

509.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

32.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

509.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU102

GPU Name

R680

TU102-400-A1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

18.6 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

754 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

280W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-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

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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