Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 3850 X3 Advantages
Lower TDP (145W vs 200W)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 Advantages
Boost Clock2475MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
5568 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3850 X3
428
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+6710%
29150
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Aug 2024
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1920 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
850 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
46
320
Shading Units
5888
16
TMUs
184
16
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
10.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
10.70 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
428.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
200W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
4x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
AD104
RV670 PRO
(215-0708003)
(215-0708003)
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
4.1
Shader Model
6.8