NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 275 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

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 127.0GB/s)

1040 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 219W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 275

0.674 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +279%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 275

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Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1134 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

127.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

240

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.72 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

50.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

673.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

84.24 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G200-105-B3

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

219W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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