ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 605 OEM

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 605 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 605 OEM 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 14.35GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 605 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +1100%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 605 OEM

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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GeForce 605 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Apr 2012

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

897 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

14.35GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

48

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GF119

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GF119-200-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

25W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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