ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780 +246%

4.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 780

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

May 2013

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

863 MHz

-

Boost Clock

902 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

43.30 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

173.2 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.156 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

173.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

286W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GK110

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

GK110-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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