AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1226MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT +46%

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Mar 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1074 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

28

-

1536

Shading Units

1792

96

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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