ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 300

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA NVS 300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM NVS 300 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (18W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +2976%

1.2 TFLOPS

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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NVS 300

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Jan 2011

Radeon R700

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.64GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GT218

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GT218-670-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

18W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DMS-59

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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