Radeon HD 7870 XT and Radeon 7500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon 7500
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
Radeon 7500
3
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Radeon 7500
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Tahiti
RV200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
-
Core clock speed
925 MHz
290 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
-
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
1.740
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
460 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
7.36 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
7.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A