AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA P104 101

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition NVIDIA P104 101

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 4GB VRAM P104 101 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA P104 101 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

P104 101 +236%

8.617 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

P104 101

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

269.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

134.6 GFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.617 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

269.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP104

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

GP104-101-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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