ATI Radeon HD 4850 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4850

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4850

1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +168%

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon R700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

993 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

63.55GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

20

-

800

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

1000 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

200.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

110W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Curacao

RV770 PRO (215-0669065)

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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