ATI FirePro V9800 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V9800 +126%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

10

1600

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 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)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV770

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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