Radeon RX Vega 56 and Radeon HD 4870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX Vega 56 vs Radeon HD 4870
Radeon RX Vega 56
13659
Radeon HD 4870
1411
Radeon RX Vega 56
Radeon HD 4870
Architecture
Vega (2017−2021)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
Vega
RV770
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2017
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1474 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1138 MHz
750 MHz
Floating-point performance
10,566 gflops
1,200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
12,500 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
800
Power consumption (TDP)
210 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
329.5
30.00
Memory type
HBM2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
409.6 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
409.6 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.1
Vulkan
1.1.125
N/A