AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 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 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +1677%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Dec 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 100

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

38.02GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G94B

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

196 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

2

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

3

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 16 MB

4

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce G210 OEM Rev. 2

5

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation

6

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM

7

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs ATI FirePro V8800

8

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

9

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs MTT S30

10

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM

Related News

1

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

2

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

3

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

4

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

5

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

6

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

7

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

8

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

9

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

10

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market