NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

7904 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (286W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +2380%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

68

SM Count

-

8704

Shading Units

800

272

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

286W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

R700

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

628 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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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