AMD Radeon RX 560X vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X +117%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

10

1024

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

RV770

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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