
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and FireStream 9270 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
FireStream 9270
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
RV770
RV770
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2009
November 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
750 MHz
750 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
1,200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
800
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
160 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
30.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3400 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
108.8 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A