GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 4855

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated32
Place by popularitynot in top-10091
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data52.66
Power efficiencyno data14.45
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV770GA104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date3 January 2010 (14 years ago)31 May 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores6406144
Core clock speed575 MHz1575 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1770 MHz
Number of transistors956 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt290 Watt
Texture fill rate18.40339.8
Floating-point processing power0.736 TFLOPS21.75 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs32192
Tensor Coresno data192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length220 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/s608.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2010 31 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 290 Watt

ATI HD 4855 has 163.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 3070 Ti, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 587.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4855 and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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