ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

AMD Radeon RX 580G

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1330MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G +410%

6.129 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

Radeon RX 580G

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Oct 2018

Radeon R700

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1330 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

36

-

800

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.56 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

286W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

Polaris 20

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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