AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

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AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 896SP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 286W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 896SP +75%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 896SP

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Aug 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

-

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

10

896

Shading Units

800

56

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

R700

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

286W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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