NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (215W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +739%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

2944

Shading Units

800

184

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

R700

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

286W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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