AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 10GB VRAM CMP 170HX 10 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1410MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1560GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX 10 GB +321%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

CMP 170HX 10 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Sep 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1560GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

1536

Shading Units

4480

96

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

10 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

GA100-105A-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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