ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GE 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 7 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +5900%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300 GE

0.02 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9300 GE

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Jun 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

800

Shading Units

8

40

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G98S

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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