GeForce GTX 780 vs Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +246%

4156

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1200

GeForce GTX 780

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 700

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2304

Shading Units

800

192

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

286W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

R700

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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