ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

584 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 171W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 +123%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

0.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

27

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

216

40

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GT200B

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

171W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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