ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX 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 96.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX +75%

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

Radeon RX 560DX

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2018

Radeon R700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

14

800

Shading Units

896

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Polaris 21

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

3 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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