AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 48GB VRAM RTX 5880 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 285W)

NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2460MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

12800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

RTX 5880 Ada Generation +2605%

69.27 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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RTX 5880 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2024

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

975 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

864.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

110

1280

Shading Units

14080

80

TMUs

440

32

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

440

-

RT Cores

110

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

433.0 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1082 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

69.27 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

69.27 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1082 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

285W

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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