Radeon HD 8670D IGP vs Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Radeon HD 8670D IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 8670D IGP
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Jan 2009
Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8670D IGP

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8670D IGPRadeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
GPU NameDevastator ()vsRV770 (RV770 PRO)
Fab Process32 nmvs55 nm
Die Size246 mm²vs256 mm²
Transistors1,303 millionvs956 million
Shaders384vs800
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock844 MHzvs750 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs24vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8670D IGPRadeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8670D IGPRadeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
TDP100 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2013vs6 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8670D IGP
    6.75 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
    12.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8670D IGP
    20.30 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
    30.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8670D IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
    109.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8670D IGP
    648.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
    1200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better