ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs RX 460 1024SP

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameBaffinRV670
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date17 January 2017 (7 years ago)12 June 2008 (16 years ago)

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 cores1024320
Core clock speed1090 MHz777 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,000 million666 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt106 Watt
Texture fill rate76.8012.43
Floating-point processing power2.458 TFLOPS0.4973 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs6416

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 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Length170 mm241 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1126 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s72.06 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.44.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 January 2017 12 June 2008
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 106 Watt

RX 460 1024SP has an age advantage of 8 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 41.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 460 1024SP and Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 460 1024SP
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