AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 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

Lower TDP (175W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER +253%

9.062 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jul 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1605 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 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

40

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

113.3 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

283.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

18.12 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.062 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

283.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU104

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

TU104-410-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 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

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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