AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +1285%

35.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2024

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

1280

Shading Units

7168

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

56

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

198.0 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

554.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

35.48 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.48 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

554.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

220W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

AD104

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

AD104-350-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

294 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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

2

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

3

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

4

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition

5

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI 32 MB

6

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro W4100

7

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

8

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro W6400

9

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro V620

10

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645 OEM

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster