NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
+101%
2.413 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 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
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
2GB
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
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
RV770
GM206-300-A1
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
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
