AMD Radeon R9 380X vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380X

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 63.68GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (190W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 380X +297%

3.973 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

VS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Nov 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1425 MHz

Memory Clock

995 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

182.4GB/s

Bandwidth

63.68GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

10

-

2048

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

124.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

3.973 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.973 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

248.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

4x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Antigua

GPU Name

R700

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

GPU Variant

R700 PRO (215-0669065)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

366 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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