ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 112.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +101%

2.413 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Jan 2015

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

GM206

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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