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3D Rage IIC PCI vs Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI 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

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores

Score

Graphics Card

Apr 1997
Release Date
Jun 2008
Rage 2
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

83 MHz
Memory Clock
1126 MHz

Memory

2MB
Memory Size
512MB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR4
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
72.06GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
4
-
Shading Units
320
1
TMUs
16
1
ROPs
16
-
L2 Cache
256 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown
TDP
106W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI 1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Rage IIC
GPU Name
RV670
Rage IIC PCI (215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
RV670 XT (215-0708005)
Rage 2
Architecture
TeraScale
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²

Graphics Features

5.0
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
N/A
OpenGL
3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
Shader Model
4.1
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