NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation and ATI Mobility 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 14 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 1353.6x more texture fill rate: 300.5 GTexel/s vs 2x 22 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • 3.8x more pipelines: 6144 vs 1600
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 55 nm
  • 10x more maximum memory size: 20 GB vs 2x 1 GB
Launch date 21 Mar 2023 vs 9 January 2009
Core clock speed 1290 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 300.5 GTexel/s vs 2x 22 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines 6144 vs 1600
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 20 GB vs 2x 1 GB

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

  • Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 2800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Memory clock speed 2800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

Name NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark 1101
PassMark - G3D Mark 20215
Geekbench - OpenCL 124062

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace TeraScale
Code name AD104 M98
Launch date 21 Mar 2023 9 January 2009
Place in performance rating 36 not rated
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1565 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 6144 1600
Pixel fill rate 125.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 300.5 GTexel/s 2x 22 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 70 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 956 million
Floating-point performance 2x 880.0 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 168 mm, 6.6 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Width 69 mm, 2.7 inches
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 10.1
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 20 GB 2x 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 280.0 GB/s 2x 89.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 160 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 2800 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

1x Dual-Link/Single-Link DVI
1x Single-Link DVI Support (all display ports have to be supported by the laptop manufacturer)
DisplayPort support up to 2560x1600
HDMI support up to 1920x1080 (both with 7.1 AC3 Audio)
PCI-E 2.0 x16
Powerplay