ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +41%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

0.848 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 560 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Nov 2011

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

800

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.25 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.50 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

847.9 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

106.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GF110

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GF110-040-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

3 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

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

2.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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