AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)

1272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +11536%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300 GS

0.022 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce 9300 GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jun 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

333 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

5.328GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1280

Shading Units

8

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.268 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.268 GTexel/s

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G98S

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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