ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 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

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1980MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary +745%

10.14 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Jul 2019

Radeon R700

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1680 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1980 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

40

800

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

126.7 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

316.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.28 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.14 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

633.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Navi 10

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XTX

TeraScale

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5

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