GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon HD 3870 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1070 vs Radeon HD 3870 X2
GeForce GTX 1070
13916
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
GeForce GTX 1070
Radeon HD 3870 X2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
R680
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
January 2008
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1683 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1506 MHz
825 MHz
CUDA cores
1920
-
Floating-point performance
6,463 gflops
2x 528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1920
320
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
165 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
202.0
13.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
1802 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
57.66 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.1
Vulkan
+
N/A
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-