Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs GeForce GTX 750

Radeon HD 4870 X2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Aug 2008
Radeon HD 4870 X2
GeForce GTX 750
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 750

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    115%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4870 X2

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 750

231 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4870 X2 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 15% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 750

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 750

The GeForce GTX 750 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4870 X2GeForce GTX 750
GPU NameR700 (R700 XT)vsGM107 (GM107-300-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders800vs512
Compute Units10vs4
Core clock700 MHzvs1020 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4870 X2GeForce GTX 750
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4870 X2GeForce GTX 750
TDP286 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date12 Aug 2008vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    22.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 750
    16.32 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    56.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 750
    32.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    230.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 750
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    2240.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 750
    1044.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    4170
  • GeForce GTX 750
    4830

Points (higher is better)