AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1010 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1380MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +324%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

0.706 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce GT 1010 DDR4

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Jan 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1380 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1536

Shading Units

256

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.04 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.08 GTexel/s

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

706.6 GFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

29.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

20W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP108

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

GP108-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

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

6.7

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