Radeon HD 5870 vs Radeon HD 4700
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon HD 4700 |
| 138 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5870
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 4700 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Cypress (Cypress XT) | vs | RV730 (RV730 XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | vs | 146 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,154 million | vs | 514 million |
| Shaders | 1600 | vs | 320 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 4700 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective | vs | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5870 | | Radeon HD 4700 | |
|---|
| TDP | 188 watts | vs | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 23 Sep 2009 | vs | 11 Feb 2010 |
Radeon HD 5870
27.20 GP/s
Radeon HD 4700
4.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
68.00 GT/s
Radeon HD 4700
19.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
154.00 GB/s
Radeon HD 4700
12.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5870
2720.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 4700
384.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better