Radeon HD 4870 and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4870 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
Radeon HD 4870
1411
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
Radeon HD 4870
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
RV770
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
January 2022
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
750 MHz
2610 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
30.00
180.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.1
2.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3