AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 20GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB +1232%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1335 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

80

1280

Shading Units

10240

80

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

GA102

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

628 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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