Radeon HD 7870 XT and GP108B - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7870 XT

GP108B

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GP108B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

November 2012

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

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Boost clock speed

975 MHz

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Core clock speed

925 MHz

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Floating-point performance

2,995 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

384

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

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Texture fill rate

93.60

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

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6.1

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

NVENC

-

No Support

PureVideo HD

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VP8