AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 430 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (975MHz vs 780MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 36.80GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +400%

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 430 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

Radeon R5 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Jun 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

36.80GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

6

-

1536

Shading Units

384

96

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Oland

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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