ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 +2627%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2

0.044 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2011

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

333 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

5.328GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

800

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.356 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.712 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.86 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GT218S

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

GT218-670-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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