Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 295 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GTX 295
Radeon HD 4870
1411
GeForce GTX 295
1242
Radeon HD 4870
GeForce GTX 295
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
RV770
GT200B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
January 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
750 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
-
480
CUDA cores per GPU
-
240
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
2x 596.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
240
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
289 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
30.00
92.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1792 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
896 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
999 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
223.8 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
-
896 MB
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Two Dual Link DVIHDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)
-
128bit