AMD Radeon Vega 3 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 3 and ATI Radeon HD 4870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 3

• Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 55 nm
• 10x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 150 Watt
• 7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 303 vs 43

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4870

• 2.5x more core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 300 MHz
• 2.5x more texture fill rate: 30 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
• 4.2x more pipelines: 800 vs 192
• 3.1x better floating-point performance: 1,200.0 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
• Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1386 vs 889
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3346 vs 3174
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3346 vs 3174

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 3
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	889 1386
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	303 43
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3174 3346
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3174 3346

Compare specifications (specs)