Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Radeon HD 3870 X2 - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

Vega Raven Ridge

R680

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

October 2017

January 2008

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1200 MHz

Core clock speed

825 MHz

Floating-point performance

2x 528.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

666 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

320

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

165 Watt

Texture fill rate

13.20

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1802 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.66 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12_1

10.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

Shader Model

4.1

Vulkan

N/A