AMD Radeon RX 590 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 RX 590 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

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

1504 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +493%

7.119 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

Polaris

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

10

-

2304

Shading Units

800

144

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

RV770

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 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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