AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 230W)

NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 74% (1695MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

RTX A5000 8Q +827%

27.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

RTX A5000 8Q

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Apr 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

1170 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

64

1536

Shading Units

8192

96

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

433.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

27.77 TFLOPS

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

27.77 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

433.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

230W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

628 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

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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