ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +405%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Jun 2015

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

2816

40

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GM200

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

8 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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