AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 300W)

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 157% (2505MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

16640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +2940%

91.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Dec 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

915 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

142

1536

Shading Units

18176

96

TMUs

568

32

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

568

-

RT Cores

142

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

96 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

481.0 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1423 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

91.06 TFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.06 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1423 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD102

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

AD102

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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