AMD FirePro D300 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro D300 ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 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

AMD FirePro D300 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (162.6GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D300 +81%

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro D300

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

162.6GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

10

1280

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV770

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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