Quadro RTX 6000 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated69
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data5.32
Power efficiencyno data12.78
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRV670TU102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date12 June 2008 (16 years ago)13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$6,299

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3204608
Core clock speed777 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1770 MHz
Number of transistors666 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)106 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate12.43509.8
Floating-point processing power0.4973 TFLOPS16.31 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs16288
Tensor Coresno data576
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR4GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1126 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth72.06 GB/s672.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 June 2008 13 August 2018
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 106 Watt 260 Watt

ATI HD 3870 Mac Edition has 145.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 6000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 358.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and Quadro RTX 6000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 6000 is a workstation one.


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