NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2175MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +944%

26.73 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Mar 2012

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

2175 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

48

SM Count

-

6144

Shading Units

1280

192

TMUs

80

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

174.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

417.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

26.73 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

26.73 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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