ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (19W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +500%

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Dec 2013

Radeon R700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

2

800

Shading Units

160

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Caicos

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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