Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs FirePro S7000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (106W vs 150W)
FirePro S7000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
497
FirePro S7000
+389%
2432
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Aug 2012
Radeon R600
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1126 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
72.06GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
20
320
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.00 GTexel/s
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.432 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
152.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
106W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Pitcairn
RV670 XT
(215-0708005)
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
