NVIDIA NVS 300 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA NVS 300

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 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 NVS 300 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (18W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +2976%

1.2 TFLOPS

NVS 300

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Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

NVS

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

790 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

800

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

18W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

RV770

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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