AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

3296 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (286W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +992%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Aug 2008

Radeon Pro

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

10

-

4096

Shading Units

800

256

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

286W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

R700

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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