Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
416 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Lower TDP (20W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4870
+13%
1200
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Mar 2018
Radeon R700
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
3
800
Shading Units
384
40
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
20W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GP108
RV770 XT
(215-0669049)
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
4.1
Shader Model
6.4