AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Lower TDP (141W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +537%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Jan 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

128

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92B

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

141W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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