ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 16 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

20960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +9041%

109.7 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

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

1875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

170

800

Shading Units

21760

40

TMUs

680

16

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

680

-

RT Cores

170

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 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

GB202

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

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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