NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (532.6GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +1160%

32.26 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 50

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

532.6GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

50

SM Count

-

6400

Shading Units

1280

200

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

200

Tensor Cores

-

50

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

40 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

161.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

504.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

32.26 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.26 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

504.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GB205

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

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

10.1

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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