NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra 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 12 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 2

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

230 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

Tahiti

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Celsius

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

12 (11_1)

1.5

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

Shader Model

5.1

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