AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2025
Mar 2012
Generation
Navi IV
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
3130 MHz
-
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
20
SM Count
132
-
Shading Units
2048
1280
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
528
-
RT Cores
32
-
L1 Cache
256 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
512 KB
L3 Cache
32 MB
-
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
200.3 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
400.6 GTexel/s
80.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
51.28 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
25.64 TFLOPS
2.560 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
801.3 GFLOPS
160.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Navi 44
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT(215-176400102)
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
28 nm
Transistors
29.7 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
199 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
175W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b2x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
9.0
-
Shader Model
6.8
5.1