ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +261%

4.339 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2021

Radeon R700

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GA107

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

Unknown

256 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.1

Shader Model

6.6

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