AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock975MHz

Lower TDP (185W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +91%

5.733 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Nov 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

24

-

2816

Shading Units

1536

176

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

185W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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