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Radeon HD 4870 2GB vs Radeon R9 M385X

Intro

The Radeon HD 4870 2GB comes with a GPU core clock speed of 750 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M385X, which comes with a core clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 4870 2GB should in theory be a little bit better than the Radeon R9 M385X in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M385X 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 19200 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M385X will be much (approximately 105%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X 61600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 31600 (105%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M385X is superior to the Radeon HD 4870 2GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M385X 17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5600 (47%)

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 2GB Radeon R9 M385X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 2015
Code Name RV770 XT Bonaire
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 30000 Mtexels/sec 61600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12000 Mpixels/sec 17600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 896
Texture Mapping Units 40 56
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 956 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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