ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs R7 250E

Place in the ranking	665	725
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.13	0.13
Power efficiency	5.49	0.82
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	R700
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	20 December 2013 (10 years ago)	12 August 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$109	$550

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

R7 250E has 769% better value for money than ATI HD 4870 X2.

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 cores	512	800
Core clock speed	800 MHz	700 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	956 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	286 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.60	28.00
Floating-point processing power	0.8192 TFLOPS	1.12 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	16
TMUs	32	40

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	267 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	115.2 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	5.1	4.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.36	3.39
Recency	20 December 2013	12 August 2008
Chip lithography	28 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	286 Watt

R7 250E has a 28.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 420% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R7 250E is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.