AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 XT 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 RX 7700 XT 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 161% (2544MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 245W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7700 XT +1074%

35.17 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7700 XT

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Nov 2012

Navi III

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1435 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

2544 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

54

Compute Units

24

-

3456

Shading Units

1536

216

TMUs

96

ROPs

32

-

54

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

48 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

244.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

549.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

70.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

1099 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

245W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 32 XL (215-180000076)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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