ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 X2 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 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 570 X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (268.8GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 X2 +311%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

Radeon RX 570 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Unknown

Radeon R700

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2100 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

268.8GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

32

-

800

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Polaris 20

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

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

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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