3D Rage IIC PCI vs Radeon HD 3870 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.66GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Jan 2008
Rage 2
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
83 MHz
Memory Clock
901 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
512MB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
57.66GB/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
13.20 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.20 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
528.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
105.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
165W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
R680
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
R680 XT
(215-0708017)
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
