AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2013
May 2013
Generation
Sea Islands
GeForce 700
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1502 MHz
Base Clock
-
863 MHz
Boost Clock
-
902 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
288.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
2304
TMUs
80
192
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
43.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
173.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
4.156 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
173.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Pitcairn
GK110
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
GK110-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
7.08 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
561 mm²

Board Design

TDP
175W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.175
Shader Model
5.1
6.5 (5.1)
CUDA
-
3.5