AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 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

Lower TDP (175W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB +749%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

48

1280

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GA104

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

GA104-401-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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