AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1620MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 +191%

7.465 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Oct 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

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Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU106

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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