NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 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 TITAN

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 837 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • Around 68% higher pipelines: 2688 vs 2x 800
  • 2.1x better floating-point performance: 4,709 gflops vs 2x 1,120.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 286 Watt
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2x 1 GB
  • 6.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8210 vs 1309
  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 635 vs 565
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 3323
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 3323
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 February 2013 vs 12 August 2008
Core clock speed 837 MHz vs 700 MHz
Pipelines 2688 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance 4,709 gflops vs 2x 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 286 Watt
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 2x 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8210 vs 1309
PassMark - G2D Mark 635 vs 565
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 vs 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 vs 3323

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

  • Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 2x 28 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 187.5 billion / sec
  • 600x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Texture fill rate 2x 28 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 187.5 billion / sec
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8210
1309
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
635
565
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3323
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 8210 1309
PassMark - G2D Mark 635 565
Geekbench - OpenCL 24431
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 62.027
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1218.137
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.835
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 36.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 215.546
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10176
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 3323
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2901

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK110 R700
Launch date 19 February 2013 12 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $999 $550
Place in performance rating 438 440
Price now $2,054.59
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 5.09

Technical info

Boost clock speed 876 MHz
Core clock speed 837 MHz 700 MHz
CUDA cores 2688
Floating-point performance 4,709 gflops 2x 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 2688 2x 800
Texture fill rate 187.5 billion / sec 2x 28 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 286 Watt
Transistor count 7,080 million 956 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI... 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 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
Supplementary power connectors One 8-pin and one 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.4 GB / s 2x 115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 384-bit GDDR5 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 3600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

3D Gaming
3D Vision
3D Vision Live
Adaptive VSync
Blu Ray 3D
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
TXAA