Radeon HD 4670 AGP vs Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4670 AGP and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 4670 AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (59W vs 175W)
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4670 AGP
480
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
+466%
2720
Graphics Card
Jul 2009
Release Date
Jan 2013
Radeon R700
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
20
320
Shading Units
1600
32
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
24.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
480.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
59W
TDP
175W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV730
GPU Name
Cypress
RV730 XT
(215-0719047)
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.514 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
146 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
