Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
Released June, 2008
ATi Radeon HD 4870
- 750 MHz
- 512 MB GDDR5
by techPowerUp! (Aug, 2008)We can clearly see that the second GPU runs cooler under load, whether this is because load distribution or design of the cooler remains unknown.
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Released March, 2011
Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
- 900 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2011)Clock speeds are improved as well out of the box but are not the highest we have seen today.
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher memory bandwidth | 115.2 GB/s | vs | 98.5 GB/s | More than 15% higher memory bandwidth | |||
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| More shading units | 800 | vs | 192 | 608 more shading units | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 1,200 GFLOPS | vs | 691.2 GFLOPS | Around 75% better floating-point performance | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 900 MHz | vs | 750 MHz | 20% higher clock speed | |||
| Slightly better PassMark score | 1,926 | vs | 1,379 | Around 40% better PassMark score | |||
| Much better sky diver factor score | 136.02 | vs | 2.24 | Around 60.8x better sky diver factor score | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 4,104 MHz | vs | 3,600 MHz | Around 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| More render output processors | 24 | vs | 16 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,026 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | Around 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 116W | vs | 150W | Around 25% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
3DMark Vantage (Texture Fill) Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX performance
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Crysis: Warhead (2012) 1920x1200 - Frost Bench - Enthusiast Quality + 4xAA
SmallLux GPU 2.0d4 Measures compute performance using OpenCL to do 3D rendering
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