NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

7904 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +2380%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

8704

Shading Units

800

272

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

RV770

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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