ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +900%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Jul 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

48

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G94

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

2

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

3

ATI FirePro V3700 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

4

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 230

5

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7350 OEM

6

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

7

AMD Radeon Pro V7300X vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

8

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 390

9

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

10

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1