ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 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 2 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 150W)

Score

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Jan 2007

Radeon R700

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

27W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

RV516

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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