GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1201MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
+105%
2460
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
1200
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 900
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
-
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
1024
Shading Units
800
64
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
RV770
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
RV770 XT Mac
(215-0669080)
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
4.1
