NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +105%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

1024

Shading Units

800

64

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

RV770

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

256 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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

4.1

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