ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition sales 12 June 2008. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR4 memory clocked at 2.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 72.06 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 106 Watt.

We have no data on Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition benchmark results.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRV670
Market segmentDesktop
Release date12 June 2008 (15 years old)
Current price$5.99 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed777 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors666 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)106 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate12.43of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance497.3 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length241 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR4
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed2252 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth72.06 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


We have no data on Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition benchmark results.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition is GeForce GTX 260.

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