Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce 7800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce 7800 GTX
Radeon HD 4870
1411
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
Radeon HD 4870
GeForce 7800 GTX
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
RV770
G70
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
June 2005
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
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Core clock speed
750 MHz
430 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
302 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
-
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
86 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
10.32
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A