AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI 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 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

Score

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Apr 2004

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Rankine

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV41

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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