NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1620MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070 +149%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 20

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

288

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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