Radeon Vega 7 vs ATI HD 4870

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon HD 4870 with Radeon Vega 7, including specs and performance data.

ATI HD 4870
2008
1 GB GDDR5, 150 Watt
3.58

Vega 7 outperforms ATI HD 4870 by a whopping 109% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking720532
Place by popularitynot in top-10018
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.31no data
Power efficiency1.6411.38
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRV770Cezanne
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 June 2008 (16 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$299 no data

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 cores800448
Core clock speed750 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1900 MHz
Number of transistors956 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate30.0053.20
Floating-point processing power1.2 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4028

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 x16IGP
Length250 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.2

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD10−12
−120%
22
+120%
1440p14−16
−129%
32
+129%
4K7−8
−129%
16
+129%

Cost per frame, $

1080p29.90no data
1440p21.36no data
4K42.71no data

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.58 7.47
Recency 25 June 2008 13 April 2021
Chip lithography 55 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 45 Watt

Vega 7 has a 108.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 12 years, a 685.7% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Vega 7 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon HD 4870 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4870 is a desktop card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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