Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon HD 4850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon HD 4850
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Radeon HD 4850
1057
Radeon HD 7870
Radeon HD 4850
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
RV770
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
800
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
110 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
25.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
993 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
63.55 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A