ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon R7 260

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 96.00GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (95W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260 +28%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

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Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Dec 2013

Radeon R700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

12

800

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

Bonaire

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

95W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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