ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (116W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 +73%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Mar 2011

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1026 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

800

Shading Units

192

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

286W

TDP

116W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GF116

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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