NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2144 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +739%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 20

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

46

SM Count

-

2944

Shading Units

800

184

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

RV770

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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