ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

ATI Radeon HD 4720

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 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 21.34GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (55W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 +212%

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2011

Radeon R700

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

4

-

800

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

RV730

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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