Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs Radeon RX 470D
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 470D Advantages
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 145W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 3850 X3
428
Radeon RX 470D
+909%
4322
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Oct 2016
Radeon R600
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
926 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
850 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
28
320
Shading Units
1792
16
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
10.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
10.70 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
135.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.322 TFLOPS
428.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.322 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
270.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
120W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
4x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Ellesmere
RV670 PRO
(215-0708003)
(215-0708003)
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PROD
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.4
