ATI Radeon HD 4870
VS
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
ATI Radeon HD 4870
VS
AMD Radeon R9 Fury

General info

The general info section in the graphics cards comparison list contains information about the date of release, type, overall rating and other useful data for identifying winner between ATI Radeon HD 4870  vs  AMD Radeon R9 Fury.

561
Place in performance rating
133
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Value for money (0-100)
24.94
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.2
RV770
Code name
Fiji
Desktop
Type
Desktop
25 June 2008 (13 years ago)
Release date
16 June 2015 (6 years ago)
$299
Launch price (MSRP)
$549
$191 (0.6x MSRP)
Price now
$545 (1x MSRP)
0.83
Value for money
21.07
RV770
GPU code name
Fiji
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Which GPU is better between ATI Radeon HD 4870  vs  AMD Radeon R9 Fury in the fabrication process, power consumption, and also base and turbo frequency of the GPU is the most important part containing in the graphics cards hierarchy.

800
Pipelines
3584
750 MHz
Core clock speed
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Boost Clock
1000 MHz
956 million
Transistor count
8,900 million
55 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
30.00
Texture fill rate
224.0
1,200.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
7,168 gflops
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Compute units
56
800
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
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Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
956 million
Number of transistors
8,900 million
150 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
275 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Let’s discuss how graphics cards ATI Radeon HD 4870 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury come in different sizes (length), connector types and types of interfaces.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
250 mm
Length
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2x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
​2x 8-pin
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Bus support
PCIe 3.0
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Bridgeless CrossFire
1

Memory

Graphics cards memory plays important role both in gaming and in applications for graphics. The card will perform much quicker and better, if it has more memory capacity and right memory type. What is the difference between ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury.

GDDR5
Memory type
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
3600 MHz
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
115.2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
512 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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High bandwidth memory (HBM)
+

Video outputs and ports

Let’s find out the difference in extra ports between two graphics cards. What's the difference between ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs AMD Radeon R9 Fury.

2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
+
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Number of Eyefinity displays
6
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HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
+

Technologies

Let’s have a look what is the difference. It is worthwhile to note that NVIDIA and AMD are using different technologies.

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AppAcceleration
+
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CrossFire
1
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FRTC
1
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
+
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LiquidVR
1
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PowerTune
+
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TressFX
1
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TrueAudio
+
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ZeroCore
-
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VCE
+
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DDMA audio
+
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Enduro
-
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UVD
+

API support

The confrontation between the two contenders ATI Radeon HD 4870 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury is practically over. The hardware support (API) does not greatly affect the overall performance, it is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and other performance tests. 

10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
DirectX® 12
3.3
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
+
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Shader Model
6.3
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OpenCL
2.0
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Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for ATI Radeon HD 4870 and AMD Radeon R9 Fury graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the ATI Radeon HD 4870 or AMD Radeon R9 Fury good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4870
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Death Stranding (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4870
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
F1 2020 (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4870
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Gears Tactics (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4870
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Doom Eternal (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4870
AMD Radeon R9 Fury
Legend
5 Stutters – This game is very likely to stutter and have poor frame rates. Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, average frame rates are expected to fall below 25fps
May Stutter – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, stutters and poor frame rates are expected.
30 Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 25fps
40 Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 35fps
60 Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 58fps
May Run Fluently – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, fluent frame rates are expected.
? Uncertain – This graphics card experienced unexpected performance issues during testing for this game. A slower card may be able to achieve better and more consistent frame rates than this particular GPU running the same benchmark scene.
Uncertain – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game and no reliable interpolation can be made based on the performances of surrounding cards of the same class or family.
The value in the fields displays the average frame rate of all values in the database. Move your cursor over the value to see individual results.

Advantages of ATI Radeon HD 4870

Cheaper ($191 (0.6x MSRP) vs $545 (1x MSRP))

Less power consumption (150 Watt vs 275 Watt)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 Fury

36.94% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (3584 vs 800)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 55 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 1 GB)

More memory bandwidth (512 GB/s vs 115.2 GB/s)

So, ATI Radeon HD 4870 or AMD Radeon R9 Fury?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 Fury .

ATI Radeon HD 4870 versus AMD Radeon R9 Fury performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

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3DMark Fire Strike Score

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3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

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3DMark 11 Performance GPU

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3DMark Vantage Performance

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User rating

2.9 Out of 24 Hitesti Score
4.7 Out of 31 Hitesti Score