Radeon HD 7870 XT and GeForce RTX 2080 Super - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
GeForce RTX 2080 Super
20173
Radeon HD 7870 XT
GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Turing TU104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
July 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
1815 MHz
Core clock speed
925 MHz
1650 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
13,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
3072
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
348.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
15500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
495.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
VR Ready
-
+