Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2012 Mar 2014
Generation Southern Islands GeForce 800M
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 925 MHz 941 MHz
Boost Clock 975 MHz 967 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 192bit
Bandwidth 192.0GB/s 120.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 24
Shading Units 1536 1344
TMUs 96 112
ROPs 32 24
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 512 KB 384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 31.20 GPixel/s 27.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 93.60 GTexel/s 108.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.995 TFLOPS 2.599 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 748.8 GFLOPS 108.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti GK104
GPU Variant Tahiti LE(215-0821122) N15E-GT-A2
Architecture GCN 1.0 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 3.54 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 294 mm²
Board Design
TDP 185W 100W
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 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader Model 5.1 5.1
CUDA 3.0