GeForce 7800 GTX and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7800 GTX vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 7800 GTX
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G70
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2005
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
430 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
302 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
86 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.32
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A