ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 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 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

3296 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +565%

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Mar 2016

Radeon R700

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

64

-

800

Shading Units

4096

40

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Capsaicin

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.0

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