NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1296 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +402%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

46.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

596.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

74.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

289W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

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

GT200B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-401-B3

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

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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