AMD Radeon R7 260X vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (115W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +64%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

10

-

896

Shading Units

800

56

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

RV770

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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