ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +105%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Nov 2015

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1176 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GM206

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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