ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

3680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +952%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Sep 2021

Radeon R700

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

4480

40

TMUs

280

16

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GA100

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

N/A

3.3

OpenGL

N/A

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

4.1

Shader Model

N/A

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