Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs GeForce GTX 780

Radeon HD 4870 X2
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Aug 2008
Radeon HD 4870 X2
GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 May 2013
GeForce GTX 780

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    330%

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 780

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 230% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 780

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4870 X2GeForce GTX 780
GPU NameR700 (R700 XT)vsGK110 (GK110-300-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size256 mm²vs561 mm²
Transistors956 millionvs7,080 million
Shaders800vs2304
Compute Units10vs12
Core clock700 MHzvs863 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs40vs192

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4870 X2GeForce GTX 780
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs384 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4870 X2GeForce GTX 780
TDP286 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date12 Aug 2008vs23 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    22.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    41.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    56.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    166.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    230.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 780
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    2240.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 780
    3977.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 4870 X2
    4170
  • GeForce GTX 780
    13770

Points (higher is better)