NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop) vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop) and ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 99% higher core clock speed: 1392 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 55 nm
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 286 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2x 1 GB
  • 4.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6314 vs 1309
  • Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 650 vs 565
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 October 2016 vs 12 August 2008
Core clock speed 1392 MHz vs 700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 286 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2x 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 6314 vs 1309
PassMark - G2D Mark 650 vs 565
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3336 vs 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336 vs 3323

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

  • 3.4x more texture fill rate: 2x 28 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 66.82 GTexel / s
  • 2.1x more pipelines: 2x 800 vs 768
  • Around 5% better floating-point performance: 2x 1,120.0 gflops vs 2,138 gflops
  • 514.3x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 7 GB/s
Texture fill rate 2x 28 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 66.82 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 800 vs 768
Floating-point performance 2x 1,120.0 gflops vs 2,138 gflops
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 7 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6314
1309
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
650
565
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3336
3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3336
3323
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop) ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 6314 1309
PassMark - G2D Mark 650 565
Geekbench - OpenCL 20112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 75.758
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 843.503
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.071
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 24.676
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 301.168
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8496
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3687
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3336 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8496
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3687
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3336 3323
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2338

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Desktop) ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

Essentials

Architecture Pascal TeraScale
Code name GP107 R700
Launch date 25 October 2016 12 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $139 $550
Place in performance rating 473 438
Price now $159.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 46.07

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1392 MHz
Core clock speed 1392 MHz 700 MHz
CUDA cores 768
Floating-point performance 2,138 gflops 2x 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Pipelines 768 2x 800
Texture fill rate 66.82 GTexel / s 2x 28 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 286 Watt
Transistor count 3,300 million 956 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 145 mm 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.1
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 112 GB / s 2x 115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7 GB/s 3600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready