NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (528.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB +317%

10.69 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1557 MHz

Base Clock

-

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

528.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

25

SM Count

-

3200

Shading Units

1280

200

TMUs

80

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

0 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

133.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

334.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

167.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.69 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

334.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs ATI FireGL V7600

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs ATI FirePro V9800P

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 4570 Rebrand

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 Rev. 2

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 570

Related News

1

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

2

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

3

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

4

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

5

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

6

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

7

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

8

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

9

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

10

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early