ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +126%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

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Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon R700

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

20

800

Shading Units

1600

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

Cypress

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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