Radeon HD 3870 AGP and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER - video card comparison

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

RV670

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

Interface

AGP 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1695 MHz

Core clock speed

777 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

666 million

18,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

106 Watt

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.43

325.4

Memory type

GDDR4

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

2.3 GB/s

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72.06 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) Shader Model

4.1-

Vulkan

N/A