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GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon HD 4870 X2

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti features a GPU core clock speed of 1607 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2432 Stream Processors, 152 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4870 X2, which features a clock speed of 750 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 180 Watts
Radeon HD 4870 X2 350 Watts
Difference: 170 Watts (94%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 262144 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4870 X2 230400 MB/sec
Difference: 31744 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be much (more or less 307%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 X2. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 X2 60000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 184264 (307%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 4870 X2, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 X2 24000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 78848 (329%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Radeon HD 4870 X2
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year November 2017 Aug 12, 2008
Code Name GP104-300 R700
Memory 8192 MB 1024 MB (x2)
Core Speed 1607 MHz 750 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 8000 MHz 3600 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 180 watts 350 watts
Bandwidth 262144 MB/sec 230400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 244264 Mtexels/sec 60000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 102848 Mpixels/sec 24000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2432 800(160x5) (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 152 40 (x2)
Render Output Units 64 16 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit (x2)
Fab Process 16 nm 55 nm
Transistors 7200 million 956 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16 (PCIe bridge)
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

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