NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +621%

6.463 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

15

SM Count

-

1920

Shading Units

640

120

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

RV790

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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