NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock 1620MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +1402%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410MHz

Base Clock

-

1620MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1126MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06 GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4MB

L2 Cache

256KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

RV670

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

10,800 million

Transistors

666 million

445mm²

Die Size

192mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

106W

450W

Suggested PSU

300W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 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)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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