
Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon RX Vega 2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3870
Radeon RX Vega 2
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
RV670
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2007
January 2018
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
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Boost clock speed
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1100 MHz
Core clock speed
777 MHz
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Floating-point performance
497.3 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
128
Power consumption (TDP)
106 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.43
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Memory type
GDDR4
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Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
2252 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
72.06 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12_1
OpenCL
N/A
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OpenGL
3.3
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Shader Model
4.1
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Vulkan
N/A
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