Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

Radeon HD 4870
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 25 Jun 2008
Radeon HD 4870
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Aug 2014
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4870

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4870

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4870GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
GPU NameRV770 (RV770 PRO)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs292 million
Shaders800vs48
Compute Units10vs1
Core clock750 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs40vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4870GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4870GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
TDP150 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date25 Jun 2008vs22 Aug 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870
    12.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870
    30.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4870
    115.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    14.37 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4870
    1200.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    155.52 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better