AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 XT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

4800 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6900 XT +4535%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

VS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jun 2008

Navi II

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

-

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

4

5120

Shading Units

320

TMUs

16

128

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

720.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

46.08 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

1440 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

RV670

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

106W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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