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Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 825 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 900 MHz on this model. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, which has clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 480 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB should be much faster than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 51200 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB will be quite a bit (more or less 38%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 19200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 7200 (38%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB is quite a bit (approximately 313%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB 26400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 6400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 20000 (313%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 3870 X2 512MB Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jan 28, 2008 February 2011
Code Name R680 Turks
Memory 512 MB (x2) 1024 MB
Core Speed 825 MHz (x2) 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz (x2) 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 63 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26400 Mpixels/sec 6400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320(64x5) (x2) 480
Texture Mapping Units 16 (x2) 24
Render Output Units 16 (x2) 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 715 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16/(internal PCIe 1.1 x16) PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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