Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon RX 580 2048SP - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4870 vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Radeon HD 4870
1411
Radeon RX 580 2048SP
7929
Radeon HD 4870
Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
RV770
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
October 2018
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1284 MHz
Core clock speed
750 MHz
1168 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
164.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131