NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 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

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2005

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 7 PCIe

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

-

Shading Units

800

24

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G70

GPU Name

RV770

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.302 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

333 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

108W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.1

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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