Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition |
| 150 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 351% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
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| GPU Name | RV770 (RV770 PRO) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT2) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 256 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 956 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 750 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
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| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 850 MHz
3400 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 150 watts | vs | 300 watts |
| Release Date | 6 Jan 2009 | vs | 22 Jun 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)