ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs AMD FirePro W4300

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro W4300 +19%

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

FirePro W4300

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2015

Radeon R700

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

12

800

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Bonaire

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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