NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

5088 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +2329%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

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Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 40

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

5888

Shading Units

800

184

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

36 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

RV770

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

55 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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