Radeon HD 7870 XT and GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7870 XT

GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GN20-S7

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

November 2012

December 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

975 MHz

1477 MHz

Core clock speed

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,995 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

30-45 Watt

Texture fill rate

93.60

189.1

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready