Radeon RX 590 GME vs Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 590 GME Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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

Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 GME +445%

6543

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1200

Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Jan 2009

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1420 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

10

2304

Shading Units

800

144

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

45.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

204.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

6.543 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.543 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

409.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

RV770

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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