AMD Radeon RX 570X vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 570X

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570X +324%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Aug 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/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)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

286W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

R700

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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