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

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

5088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +1283%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Nov 2022

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

800

Shading Units

5888

40

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

220W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GA104

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

-

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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