AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 32GB VRAM RTX 5000 Ada Generation 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 250W)

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2550MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

11520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation +2450%

65.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

RTX 5000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Aug 2023

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1155 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2550 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

100

1280

Shading Units

12800

80

TMUs

400

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

400

-

RT Cores

100

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

448.8 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1020 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

65.28 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

65.28 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1020 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

AD102

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

AD102

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

609 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

6.7

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