AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 350

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition AMD Radeon R7 350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 350 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 350 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +212%

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 350

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

Radeon R7 350

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jul 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

8

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO MOCHA

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

55W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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