ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 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

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 320GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 63.36GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 's Advantages

Lower TDP (143W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +426%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

0.228 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Feb 2007

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

320MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

63.36GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

800

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

20

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

80 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.26 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.62 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

228.1 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

143W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G80

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

G80-100-K0-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

90 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.0

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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