ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra 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 8 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Aug 2000

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

NV15

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

TeraScale

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

180 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

7.0

3.3

OpenGL

1.5

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

-

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