Radeon HD 4870 vs FirePro S9300 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)
FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
3296 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4870
1200
FirePro S9300 X2
+565%
7987
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Mar 2016
Radeon R700
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
64
800
Shading Units
4096
40
TMUs
256
16
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
62.40 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
249.6 GTexel/s
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.987 TFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
499.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
300W
450 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Capsaicin
RV770 XT
(215-0669049)
GPU Variant
Capsaicin XT
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
8.9 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
596 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.0
