ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +215%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon R700

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

32

-

800

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

286W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

Tahiti

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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