AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +724%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

4

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV670

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

106W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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