AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2012
Jan 2019
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 20 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
885 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1185 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
384.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
2304
TMUs
80
144
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
36
Tensor Cores
-
288
RT Cores
-
36

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
75.84 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
170.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
5.460 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
170.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.92 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Pitcairn
TU106
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
N18E-G2-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
445 mm²

Board Design

TDP
175W
90W
Suggested PSU
450 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
CUDA
-
7.5

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
6,924
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
3,230
3DMark Speed Way
-
1,410