NVIDIA NVS 300 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +7579%

2.995 TFLOPS

NVS 300

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 2012

NVS

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

790 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

16

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Tahiti

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

18W

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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