ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +975%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2025

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

800

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

GB207

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

GB207

TeraScale

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

0 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

Unknown

256 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

9.1

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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