NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 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 RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

4608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +548%

16.6 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2022

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

1280

184

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

135.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

259.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

16.60 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.60 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

259.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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