ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +1190%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Apr 2007

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G84

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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