Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 470 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GTX 470
Radeon HD 4870
1411
GeForce GTX 470
3199
Radeon HD 4870
GeForce GTX 470
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
RV770
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
April 2010
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
Two 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
750 MHz
607 MHz
CUDA cores
-
448
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
1,088.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
448
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
225 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
30.00
34.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1280 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
133.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.2
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A