ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +10%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Mar 2010

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

448

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GF100

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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