AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 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 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +863%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 440

0.311 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce GT 440

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Feb 2011

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.240 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.96 GTexel/s

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

311.0 GFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

25.92 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF108

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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