ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

5088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +2329%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2023

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1920 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

800

Shading Units

5888

40

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

AD104

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

5 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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