ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1420MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +445%

6.543 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2020

Radeon R700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

36

800

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Polaris 20

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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