Radeon HD 7870 XT and GeForce GTX 480 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs GeForce GTX 480
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
GeForce GTX 480
4229
Radeon HD 7870 XT
GeForce GTX 480
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
December 2010
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
-
Core clock speed
925 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
-
480
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
1,345.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
480
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
295 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
93.60
42 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
177.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A