Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock1379MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
+141%
2560
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Mar 2018
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
3
1280
Shading Units
384
80
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
80.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
2.560 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
160.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
20W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GP108
Pitcairn XT
(215-0828047)
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4