AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 3870

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition ATI Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +2537%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Nov 2007

Radeon Pro

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR4

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

4

4096

Shading Units

320

256

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

RV670

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

106W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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