GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
4064 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+1250%
16200
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
1200
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 30
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
38
SM Count
-
4864
Shading Units
800
152
TMUs
40
80
ROPs
16
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
RV770
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 XT Mac
(215-0669080)
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
4.1