ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

5600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 +2588%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce RTX 5070

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

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

532.6GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

50

800

Shading Units

6400

40

TMUs

200

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

200

-

RT Cores

50

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

40 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

161.3 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

504.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.26 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.26 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

504.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

220W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GB205

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

GB205

TeraScale

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

4 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

10.1

4.1

Shader Model

6.8

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