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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2: specs and benchmarks
Price now
202$
Games supported
60%
- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 700 MHz
- Max video memory 1024 MB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 3600 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2008
Performance
3.31
Summary
ATI started Radeon HD 4870 X2 sales 12 August 2008 at a recommended price of $550. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 115.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 286 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
3.31%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 4870 X2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance rating | 636 | |
| Value for money | 0.28 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
| GPU code name | R700 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 12 August 2008 (14 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $550 | |
| Current price | $202 (0.4x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Radeon HD 4870 X2's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 4870 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 800 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 700 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 956 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 286 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 28.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 2x 1,120.0 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Dimensions and compatibility
Information on Radeon HD 4870 X2's 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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 4870 X2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 3600 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 115.2 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 4870 X2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 4870 X2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 4870 X2. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- Passmark
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 24%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon HD 4870 X2 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Radeon HD 4870 X2's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest equivalent to Radeon HD 4870 X2 by NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 660 OEM, which is slower by 1% and lower by 6 positions in our rating.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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