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    Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GTX 780 Ti

    Radeon HD 4870
    Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 25 Jun 2008
    Radeon HD 4870
    GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 7 Nov 2013
    GeForce GTX 780 Ti

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • Radeon HD 4870
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      668%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4870

    100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 780 Ti .
    Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 780 Ti

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 568% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 780 Ti

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780 Ti

    The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    Radeon HD 4870GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    GPU NameRV770 (RV770 PRO)vsGK110B (GK110-425-B1)
    Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size256 mm²vs561 mm²
    Transistors956 millionvs7,080 million
    Shaders800vs2880
    Compute Units10vs15
    Core clock750 MHzvs875 MHz
    ROPs16vs48
    TMUs40vs240

    Memory Configuration

    Radeon HD 4870GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit
    Memory Speed900 MHz
    3600 MHz effective    		vs1750 MHz
    7000 MHz effective
    Memory Size512 Mbvs3072 Mb

    Additional details

    Radeon HD 4870GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    TDP150 wattsvs250 watts
    Release Date25 Jun 2008vs7 Nov 2013

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • Radeon HD 4870
      12.00 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      52.50 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • Radeon HD 4870
      30.00 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      210.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • Radeon HD 4870
      115.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      336.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • Radeon HD 4870
      1200.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      5040.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • Radeon HD 4870
      2400
    • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
      16040

    Points (higher is better)

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