AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2 ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +369%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

10

2816

Shading Units

800

176

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV770

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

150W

950 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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