NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop) and ATI Radeon HD 4850 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 20% higher pipelines: 1920 vs 2x 800
3.2x better floating-point performance: 6,463 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 55 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
11.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13510 vs 1132
Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 851 vs 542

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 June 2016 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	1506 MHz vs 625 MHz
Pipelines	1920 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance	6,463 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	13510 vs 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	851 vs 542

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 202.0 GTexel / s
248.8x more memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Texture fill rate	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 202.0 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1990 MHz vs 8 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

13510

1132

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

851

542

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	13510	1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	851	542
Geekbench - OpenCL	44918
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	150.951
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1718.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.289
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	710.366
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	13765
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6066

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Desktop)	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale
Code name	GP104	R700
Launch date	10 June 2016	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$379	$420
Place in performance rating	278	244
Price now	$359.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	45.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1683 MHz
Core clock speed	1506 MHz	625 MHz
CUDA cores	1920
Floating-point performance	6,463 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	55 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	94 °C
Pipelines	1920	2x 800
Texture fill rate	202.0 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	7,200 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width	2-slot
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	256 GB / s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	8 GB/s	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality