ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 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

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

5344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +1712%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

May 2021

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

800

Shading Units

6144

40

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GA104

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GA104-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.1

Shader Model

6.6

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