Radeon HD 7870 XT and Radeon HD 7870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon HD 7870
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Radeon HD 7870
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Pitcairn XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
March 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
-
Core clock speed
925 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2800 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
80.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131