NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 86% (1815MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (495.9GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +272%

11.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 20

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1650 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1815 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

495.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

3072

Shading Units

1536

192

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

384

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

116.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

348.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

22.30 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

348.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU104-450-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 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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