Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs Radeon 550X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

288 additional rendering cores

Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1200

Radeon 550X +3%

1247

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Mar 2019

Radeon R700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

8

800

Shading Units

512

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Lexa

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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