AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 +403%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 5050

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2025

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GB207

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

GB207

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

9.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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