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Radeon HD 4870 512MB vs Radeon R9 380 2G

Intro

The Radeon HD 4870 512MB makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 380 2G, which features core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4870 512MB 150 Watts
Radeon R9 380 2G 190 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 380 2G should be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 4870 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 182400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4870 512MB 115200 MB/sec
Difference: 67200 (58%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G is quite a bit (approximately 262%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 108640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 512MB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 78640 (262%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 2G should be quite a bit (more or less 159%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4870 512MB, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 2G 31040 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 512MB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 19040 (159%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4870 512MB Radeon R9 380 2G
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 June 2015
Code Name RV770 XT Antigua PRO
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 30000 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12000 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 1792
Texture Mapping Units 40 112
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 956 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 4870 512MB

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Radeon R9 380 2G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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