Radeon RX 560 and Radeon HD 3870 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 560 vs Radeon HD 3870 X2
Radeon RX 560
3756
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
Radeon RX 560
Radeon HD 3870 X2
Architecture
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Polaris 21
R680
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
January 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1275 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1175 MHz
825 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,611 gflops
2x 528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,000 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
165 Watt
Texture fill rate
81.60
13.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7000 MHz
1802 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.0 GB/s
57.66 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A